Crescent moon may refer to:
Lunar phases
*Fingernail moon, a
lunar phase
Concerning the lunar month of ~29.53 days as viewed from Earth, the lunar phase or Moon phase is the shape of the Moon's directly sunlit portion, which can be expressed quantitatively using areas or angles, or described qualitatively using the t ...
waxing until 7 days after or waning since 7 days before the new moon
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Hilal (crescent moon), an Arabic term for the very slight crescent moon that is first visible after a new moon
Arts, entertainment, and media
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Crescent Moon (comics)
The Moondancers are a fictional DC Comics team of radical pacifist terrorists. They first appeared in ''World's Finest Comics'' #295 (September 1983), and were created by David A Kraft, L.B. Kellog and Jerome K. Moore.
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, a fictional DC comics character
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''Crescent Moon'' (manga), the English title of the shōjo manga Mikan no Tsuki
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"Crescent Moon" (song), Mika Nakashima's 2nd single
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"Crescent Moon" (''The Avengers''), an episode of the television series ''The Avengers''
*Crescent Moon Darnel, nicknamed Cress, a character in ''
The Lunar Chronicles'' by Marissa Meyer
*''The Crescent Moon'', a 1913 collection of poetry by
Rabindranath Tagore
*The crescent moon featured in the logo for the English dub of ''
Sailor Moon
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Naoko Takeuchi. It was originally serialized in Kodansha's ''shōjo'' manga magazine ''Nakayoshi'' from 1991 to 1997; the 52 individual chapters were published in 18 volumes. The seri ...
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Other uses
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Anjaneyasana, or crescent moon, an asana (body position) in yoga
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Crescent Moon Society The Crescent Moon Society () was a Chinese literary society founded by the poet Xu Zhimo in 1923, which operated until 1931. It was named after ''The Crescent Moon'', a poem by Rabindranath Tagore. The society began as a loosely-organized dining ass ...
, a Chinese former literary society
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Crescent (disambiguation)
A crescent is a shape symbolising the Moon.
Crescent may also refer to:
Brands and enterprises
* Crescent (brand), a brand of tools after which the Crescent wrench takes its name
* Crescent (bicycle), a Swedish bicycle brand manufactured by Nym ...
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Demilune (disambiguation)
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Half Moon (disambiguation)
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Star and crescent, an iconographic symbol sometimes associated with Islam
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