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annular eclipse comparison table

Subject	has definition	is a kind of	is an instance of
solar eclipse	An eclipse in which the Earth passes through the shadow cast by the Moon. It may be total (observer in the Moon's umbra), partial (observer in the Moon's penumbra), or annular. (See eclipse, annular.)	eclipse
annular eclipse	An eclipse of the Sun in which the Moon is too far from Earth to block out the Sun completely, so that a ring of sunlight appears around the Moon.		solar eclipse

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