Cislunar

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Situated between the Earth and the Moon. not-comparable

    "Lt. Gen. Zhang Yulin, a former deputy commander of China’s astronaut program, wrote in The People’s Daily last year that cislunar space — the area between the Earth and moon — would “become another broad field for the expansion of human living space.”"

  2. 2
    Situated below the orbit of the Moon, or equivalent distance from the Earth. not-comparable
Adjective
  1. 1
    situated between the earth and the moon wordnet

Synonyms

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sublunarastralastronomicastronomicalastrophysicalgalactic

Example

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"I've never left cislunar space."

Etymology

From cis- + lunar.

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