The straight line configuration of 3 celestial bodies (as the sun and earth and moon) in a gravitational system.

Roget 199: contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal^†, juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse^†, rencontre^†, rencounter^†, syzygy [Astr.], coincidence, coexistence; adhesion etc. 46; touching etc. v.. (touch) 379.    borderland; frontier etc. (limit) 233; tangent; abutter.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: syzygie