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Moonset vs. Sunset — What's the Difference?

Moonset vs. Sunset — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Moonset and Sunset

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Moonset

The event or time of the disappearance of the moon's upper circumferential edge as it sets below the horizon.

Sunset

Sunset, also known as sundown, is the daily disappearance of the Sun below the horizon due to Earth's rotation. As viewed from everywhere on Earth (except the North and South poles), the equinox Sun sets due west at the moment of both the Spring and Autumn equinox.

Moonset

The setting of the moon below the horizon

Sunset

The event or time of the disappearance of the upper circumferential edge of the sun as it sets below the horizon.

Moonset

The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
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Sunset

The sky as the sun sets
A rosy sunset.

Sunset

A decline or final phase
The sunset of an empire.

Sunset

(Law) The automatic expiration of a statutory provision on a previously established date, in the absence of reauthorization
The law's sunset was July 1.

Sunset

(Law) Providing for an automatic expiration.

Sunset

To expire on a previously established date, as a statutory provision.

Sunset

To provide for the expiration of (a program or agency) by means of a sunset provision.

Sunset

The moment each evening when the sun disappears below the western horizon.
At sunset

Sunset

The changes in color of the sky before and after sunset.

Sunset

(figuratively) The final period of the life of a person or thing.
One's sunset years

Sunset

(attributively) A set termination date.
The tax increase legislation included a sunset clause requiring renewal to prevent the tax increase from expiring.

Sunset

The region where the sun sets; the west.

Sunset

To phase out.
We’ll be sunsetting version 1.9 of the software shortly after releasing version 2.0 next quarter.

Sunset

The descent of the sun below the horizon; also, the time when the sun sets; evening. Also used figuratively.
'T is the sunset of life gives me mystical lore.

Sunset

Hence, the region where the sun sets; the west.

Sunset

The time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon

Sunset

Atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun

Sunset

The daily event of the sun sinking below the horizon

Sunset

Of a declining industry or technology;
Sunset industries

Sunset

Providing for termination;
A program with a sunset provision

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