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English
Etymology
From cis- + lunar.
Adjective
cislunar (not comparable)
- Situated between the Earth and the Moon.
2020 December 16, Steven Lee Myers, Kenneth Chang, “China Brings Moon Rocks to Earth, and a New Era of Competition to Space”, in The New York Times, →ISSN: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.”
- Situated below the orbit of the Moon, or equivalent distance from the Earth.
Synonyms
Translations
situated below the orbit of the Moon
— see sublunarSee also