solar eclipse

1. 1.

   the moon interrupts light from the sun

   Broadereclipse

   Narrowerannular eclipse

Questions about solar eclipse

What does solar eclipse mean?

solar eclipse means "the moon interrupts light from the sun".

Is solar eclipse a common word?

solar 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.