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appulse

noun as in impact

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Mars and Uranus will appear extremely close to each other in the night sky – this is known as an appulse.

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In all consonants there is an appulse of the organs.

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The near approach of one heavenly body to another, or to the meridian; a coming into conjunction; as, the appulse of the moon to a star, or of a star to the meridian.

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The appulse or near approach is but one of the methods by which the spiral nebul� may have come into existence.

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