first contact English

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first contact noun

— (anthropology) The first meeting between people of two previously unknown cultures.

— (science fiction) The first meeting between humans and extraterrestrials.

— (astronomy) The moment, during an eclipse or transit, when the apparent positions of the two bodies first touch.

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first contact of umbra

eclipse beginning

beginning of partial eclipse