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  2. Solar eclipse - Wikipedia

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    A solar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun, thereby obscuring the view of the Sun from a small part of Earth, totally or partially.Such an alignment occurs approximately every six months, during the eclipse season in its new moon phase, when the Moon's orbital plane is closest to the plane of Earth's orbit. [1]

  3. Lunar eclipse - Wikipedia

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    In a lunar eclipse, the Moon often passes through two regions of Earth's shadow: an outer penumbra, where direct sunlight is dimmed, and an inner umbra, where indirect and much dimmer sunlight refracted by Earth's atmosphere shines on the Moon, leaving a reddish color. This can be seen in different exposures of a partial lunar eclipse, for ...

  4. Cumulative frequency analysis - Wikipedia

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    Frequency analysis [2] is the analysis of how often, or how frequently, an observed phenomenon occurs in a certain range. Frequency analysis applies to a record of length N of observed data X 1, X 2, X 3. . . X N on a variable phenomenon X. The record may be time-dependent (e.g. rainfall measured in one spot) or space-dependent (e.g. crop ...

  5. Letter frequency - Wikipedia

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    The California Job Case was a compartmentalized box for printing in the 19th century, sizes corresponding to the commonality of letters. The frequency of letters in text has been studied for use in cryptanalysis, and frequency analysis in particular, dating back to the Arab mathematician al-Kindi (c. AD 801–873 ), who formally developed the method (the ciphers breakable by this technique go ...

  6. Frequency (statistics) - Wikipedia

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    A frequency distribution shows a summarized grouping of data divided into mutually exclusive classes and the number of occurrences in a class. It is a way of showing unorganized data notably to show results of an election, income of people for a certain region, sales of a product within a certain period, student loan amounts of graduates, etc.

  7. Scientific method - Wikipedia

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    Often subsequent researchers re-formulate the explanations over time, or combined explanations to produce new explanations. Properties of scientific inquiry Scientific knowledge is closely tied to empirical findings and can remain subject to falsification if new experimental observations are incompatible with what is found.

  8. Lunar phase - Wikipedia

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    Often, the dark side of the Moon is dimly illuminated by indirect sunlight reflected from Earth, but is bright enough to be easily visible from Earth. This phenomenon is called earthshine , sometimes picturesquely described as "the old moon in the new moon's arms" or "the new moon in the old moon's arms".

  9. Wikipedia:Please clarify - Wikipedia

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    : Some guidelines which often help: Delete extraneous rambling words (especially weasel words and/or peacock terms) Replace clauses with adverbs (to limit prepositions to about four per sentence) Replace longer words with shorter words; Split long sentences into shorter sentences (again, four prepositions per sentence)