partial eclipse

1. 1.

   an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured

   Broadereclipse

Questions about partial eclipse

What does partial eclipse mean?

partial eclipse means "an eclipse in which the eclipsed body is only partially obscured".

Is partial eclipse a common word?

partial eclipse is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.