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Meaning Of Syzygy
n.
The point of an orbit, as of the moon or a planet, at which
it is in conjunction or opposition; -- commonly used in the plural.
n.
The coupling together of different feet; as, in Greek
verse, an iambic syzygy.
n.
Any one of the segments of an arm of a crinoid composed of
two joints so closely united that the line of union is obliterated on
the outer, though visible on the inner, side.
n.
The immovable union of two joints of a crinoidal arm.
T () the twentieth letter of the English alphabet, is a nonvocal
consonant. With the letter h it forms the digraph th, which has two
distinct sounds, as in thin, then. See Guide to Pronunciation,
//262-264, and also //153, 156, 169, 172, 176, 178-180.