Lune

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

See also

• Lunula (disambiguation)
• Lunette (disambiguation)