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Moonlit vs Moonlet - What's the difference?

moonlit | moonlet |

As an adjective moonlit

is (senseid)lit by moonlight.

As a noun moonlet is

(astronomy) a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring.

moonlit

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (senseid)Lit by moonlight.
  • *
  • *:But when the moon rose and the breeze awakened, and the sedges stirred, and the cat’s-paws raced across the moonlit ponds, and the far surf off Wonder Head intoned the hymn of the four winds, the trinity, earth and sky and water, became one thunderous symphony—a harmony of sound and colour silvered to a monochrome by the moon.

    • See also

    * candlelit * sunlit

    moonlet

    English

    (wikipedia moonlet)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (astronomy) a very small body orbiting a planet, often as part of a ring.
  • *1981 , Nature [http://books.google.com/books?id=5KEoAAAAMAAJ&q=define:moonlet&dq=define:moonlet&pgis=1]:
  • *:"A moonlet within the ring system will exert a systematic torque on ring material."