total eclipse

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Noun

total eclipse (plural total eclipses)

1. (astronomy) An eclipse in which the eclipsed body is completely obscured to the viewer.
   • 1983, Jim Steinman, “Total Eclipse of the Heart”, performed by Bonnie Tyler ft. Rory Dodd:

     Once upon a time I was falling in love / Now I'm only falling apart / There's nothing I can do / A total eclipse of the heart

   1. An eclipse in which the sun is completely obscured by the moon.
      • 2026 August 12, “Live Updates: First Total Eclipse in Europe in Decades Turns Day to Night”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC

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Translations

eclipse in which the eclipsed body is completely obscured to the viewer

• Afrikaans: algehele verduistering
• Albanian: eklips i plotë
• Armenian: լրիվ խավարում (lriv xavarum)
• Azerbaijani: tam tutulma
• Bulgarian: пълно затъмнение n (pălno zatămnenie)
• Catalan: eclipsi total m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 全食 (zh) (quánshí)

• Czech: úplné zatmění n
• Danish: total formørkelse c
• Dutch: totale verduistering f
• Esperanto: plen eklipso
• Estonian: täielik varjutus
• Finnish: täydellinen pimennys
• French: éclipse totale f
• Georgian: სრული დაბნელება (sruli dabneleba)
• German: totale Finsternis f
• Greek: ολική έκλειψη f (olikí ékleipsi)
• Hindi: पूर्ण ग्रहण m (pūrṇ grahaṇ)
• Hungarian: teljes fogyatkozás
• Icelandic: almyrkvi (is) m
• Italian: eclissi totale f
• Japanese: 皆既食 (ja) (kaikishoku)
• Korean: 개기식(皆旣蝕) (gaegisik)
• Latvian: pilns aptumsums m
• Lithuanian: visiškas užtemimas m
• Macedonian: целосно затемнување n (celosno zatemnuvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: total formørkelse m

  Nynorsk: total formørking m

• Polish: całkowite zaćmienie n
• Portuguese: eclipse total m
• Romanian: eclipsă totală f
• Russian: по́лные затме́ние n (pólnyje zatménije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: потпуна помрчина f

  Latin: potpuna pomrčina f

• Slovak: úplné zatmenie n
• Slovene: popoln mrk m
• Spanish: eclipse total m
• Swedish: total förmörkelse c
• Telugu: సంపూర్ణ గ్రహణము (sampūrṇa grahaṇamu)
• Turkish: tam tutulma
• Ukrainian: по́вне зате́мнення f (póvne zatémnennja)

See also

• blood moon
• lunar eclipse
• solar eclipse