Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ringshine

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ring-shine
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Sunlight that is reflected from the ring around a planet (such as the one around Saturn), visible on the night side of the planet.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The spacecraft photographed the planet's sunlit crescent, the ring shadows falling on the planet, and Saturn's dark hemisphere illuminated by "ringshine.""
"One, the ``dragon storm, is shown in Figure 5.28 (see color section), while another example, on Saturn's night side, but illuminated by ``ringshine (i.e., light reflected from Saturn's rings) is shown in Figure 5.29."
"Elephant juddered briefly, making the insertion burn, and then they were racing around the dark side of Saturn, faintly illuminated by the ghost light of ringshine."

Etymology

From ring + shine.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does ringshine mean?: Sunlight that is reflected from the ring around a planet (such as the one around Saturn), visible on the night side of the planet.
Where does ringshine come from?: From ring + shine.

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