occultation
/ˌä-(ˌ)kəl-ˈtā-shən/ (ame, mw)
occultation — 名詞
1. a period when something is screened from sight or fades from people's notice
隱沒
被遮住或淡出注意
a period when something is screened from sight or fades from people's notice
Morning fog caused the occultation of the bridge across the bay.
晨霧造成海灣上那座橋的隱沒。
occultation of + visible object
Apinya described the cloud's sudden occultation of the mountain peak.
Apinya 描述了雲層突然造成山峰隱沒的那一刻。
Years of silence led to the occultation of her role in the protest.
多年的沉默，使她在那場抗議中的角色被隱沒。
The statue's occultation behind bamboo made the garden path feel secret.
雕像隱沒在竹叢後面，讓花園小徑顯得很神祕。
- concealment
often suggests deliberate hiding by someone
- obscuring
stresses the blocking action more than the resulting state
- screening
often refers to a physical barrier rather than wider public notice
- revelation
focuses on something becoming known or visible
- exposure
stresses bringing something into open view
用法筆記
Usually formal. It often appears in writing about something being screened by fog, cloud, trees, or later events that push it out of public attention.
常見錯誤
2. an event in space when one body passes in front of another and cuts off its ligh
掩蔽
天體遮住另一天體或訊號
an event in space when one body passes in front of another and cuts off its light or a spacecraft signal
Tonight's occultation of Mars by the moon will last six minutes.
今晚月球對火星的掩蔽將持續六分鐘。
occultation of + planet by the moon
Christopher stayed up to record the occultation with his school telescope.
Christopher 熬夜用學校的望遠鏡記錄這次掩蔽。
The team measured signal loss during the spacecraft's occultation behind Venus.
團隊測量了太空船在金星後方發生掩蔽時的訊號損失。
Astronomy clubs shared maps showing where the occultation would be visible.
各地天文社分享了標示這次掩蔽可見地點的地圖。
- eclipse
more common for sun or moon darkening, and not always the same event type
用法筆記
Used in astronomy and space science. The blocking body is often named with by, behind, or after the main noun phrase, as in occultation of Mars by the moon.