Lune
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- This word should not be confused with "loon"; also see Loon (disambiguation).
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A spherical lune
Lune or Luna is a poetic name for Earth's Moon. Lune is French for Moon. Luna is Latin (and also Spanish/Italian/Russian) for Moon.
It may also refer to:
- Rivers
- River Lune in Lancashire and Cumbria, England
- River Lune, Durham in England
- Lune (river) a 43 km-long tributary of the Weser in Germany
- Place names
- Lune Forest in Cumbria, England
- Lune River, Tasmania, Australia, a town near the mouth of the river of the same name
- Mathematics
- Lune (mathematics)
- Lune of Hippocrates, in geometry a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature
- Literature
- Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English
- Sport
- In real tennis, a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court
- Fictional places and characters
- Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
- Gulf of Lune, where the latter flowed
- King Lune a fictional character in The Horse and His Boy in The Chronicles of Narnia
- Balron Lune a fictional character in Saint Seiya
- Misha Arsellec Lune, a fictional character from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
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