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Subject:    Re: kmoon: waxing crescent ??? What these mean?
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-08-27 16:40:30
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stefan@i-2000.com wrote:
> 
> Hi Claudiu,
> 
> >  In KMoon there are 4 strings which
> > mean nothing to me but I need to
> > translated them.
> >
> >  1) Waxing crescent
> >  2) Waxing gibbous
> >  2) Waning crescent
> >  2) Waning gibbous
> 
> "waning" means to become smaller/to disappear. Since this is about the moon,
> it means that the visible part becomes smaller.
> 
> Waxing can (among lots of other things) mean to increase something in size,
> gradually. Specifically in this case it means the moon is passing from new to
> full.
> 
> Gibbous refers to a shape between full and half full.
> 
> BTW: I answered those with the help of a native speaker who looked-up the
> words in a dictionary.... :^)
> 
> I do hope the original text is understandable for most English-speakers - I'm
> not too confident, though.
> 
You forget that these are tooltips for the pictures of the moon :)

Greetings, Stephan

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