Lune may refer to:
Rivers
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River Lune
The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.
Etymology
Several elucidations for the origin of the name ''Lune'' exist. Firstly, it may be that the name is Brittonic in genesis and deriv ...
, in Lancashire and Cumbria, England
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River Lune, Durham
The River Lune is a river in County Durham, England.
The Lune rises close to Lune Head Farm at the confluence of Lune Head Beck (considered by some the upper part of the Lune) and Cleve Beck. Lune Head Beck itself is formed by the meeting of Co ...
, in County Durham, England
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Lune (Weser)
Lune is a river in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is some long and a right tributary of the Lower Weser.
The Lune is a small lowland river, which is joined initially by the ''Volkmarster Lune'' on the boundary between the borough of Bremervörde and ...
, a 43 km-long tributary of the Weser in Germany
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Lune River (Tasmania)
The Lune River is a perennial river located in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia.
Course and features
The river rises below Moonlight Ridge in the Southwest National Park
Southwest National Park is an Australian national park located i ...
, in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia
Place names
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Lune Aqueduct
The Lune Aqueduct is a navigable aqueduct that carries the Lancaster Canal over the River Lune, on the east side of the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England. It was completed in 1797 at a total cost of £48,320 18s 10d.
It is a Grade I liste ...
, east of the city of Lancaster in Lancashire, England
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Lune Forest, Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, England
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Lune River, Tasmania
Lune River is a town in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia located near the mouth of a river of the same name. It is home to some 24 people.
In the 1850s, much of the town's economic activity was based on timber mills, fishing and small-sca ...
, Australia, a town near the mouth of the river of the same name
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Lüne, a former village near Lüneburg in Saxony where Charlemagne mustered his troops against the Avars
Mathematics
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Lune (geometry)
In plane geometry, a lune () is the concave-convex region bounded by two circular arcs. It has one boundary portion for which the connecting segment of any two nearby points moves outside the region and another boundary portion for which the ...
, a 2-dimensional arc-defined convex-concave area
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Lune of Hippocrates
In geometry, the lune of Hippocrates, named after Hippocrates of Chios, is a lune (mathematics), lune bounded by Circular arc, arcs of two circles, the smaller of which has as its diameter a Chord (geometry), chord spanning a right angle on the l ...
, in geometry, a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature
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Spherical lune
In spherical geometry, a spherical lune (or biangle) is an area on a sphere bounded by two half great circles which meet at antipodal points. It is an example of a digon, θ, with dihedral angle θ. The word "lune" derives from ''luna'', the L ...
, a 3-dimensional lune
People
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Ted Lune
Ted Lune (born Harold Garnett; 18 August 1920 – 7 January 1968) was a British actor, best known for portraying Private Len Bone in the TV series ''The Army Game''. He also worked in radio comedy and appeared in a couple of films.
He was born ...
(born 1920), British actor, played Private Len Bone in the TV series ''The Army Game''
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Dragutin Jovanović-Lune
Dragutin Jovanović ( sr-cyr, Драгутин Јовановић, 1892 – July 2, 1932), known by his nickname Lune (Луне), was a Serbian guerrilla fighter, officer, politician, delegate and mayor of Vrnjci. He was awarded several times for ...
(1892–1932), nicknamed Lune (Луне), Serbian guerrilla fighter, officer, politician, delegate and mayor of Vrnjci
Films
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''Moon'' (2020 film) (french: Lune, link=no), a short film by Zoé Pelchat
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''Lune'' (2021 film), a 2021 feature film by Arturo Pérez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff
Ships
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French ship Lune (1641)
The ''Lune'' was a 38-gun ship of the line of the French Navy, French Royal Navy, the first ship of the line to be built at the new state dockyard at Indre, Loire-Atlantique, Île d'Indret near Nantes, designed by Deviot and constructed by the Du ...
, 38-gun ship of the line of the French Royal Navy
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PS Lune (1892), paddle steamer passenger vessel operated from 1892 to 1913
Fictional places and characters
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Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
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Gulf of Lune, also from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
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King Lune
This is a list of characters in the series of fantasy novels by C. S. Lewis called ''The Chronicles of Narnia''. See also a list of portrayals.
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*Ahoshta: a 60-year-old Tarkaan of Calormen who later becomes the Grand Vizier, chief adviser to ...
, a fictional character in ''The Horse and His Boy'' in ''The Chronicles of Narnia''
*Misha Arsellec Lune, a fictional character from ''
Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia''
Other uses
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Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English
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La Lune
''La Lune'' ("The Moon") was the name of a nineteenth-century French weekly four-sheet newspaper edited by Francis Polo. The illustrator André Gill became known for his work for this journal, in which he drew caricatures for a series entitled ...
'', a former French newspaper
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LuneOS
LuneOS is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and currently developed by WebOS Ports community. With a user interface based on direct manipulation, LuneOS is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphon ...
, a Linux-based mobile operating system
See also
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Lüne Abbey
Lüne Abbey (german: link=yes, Kloster Lüne) is a former Benedictine nunnery in the Lower Saxon town of Lüneburg. Today it is a Protestant Lutheran convent and is managed by the Klosterkammer Hannover (Hanover Monastic Chamber). The current a ...
, in Lüneburg, Germany
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Loon (disambiguation)
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Luna (disambiguation)
Luna commonly refers to:
* Earth's Moon, named "Luna" in Latin
* Luna (goddess), the ancient Roman personification of the Moon
Luna may also refer to:
Places Philippines
* Luna, Apayao
* Luna, Isabela
* Luna, La Union
* Luna, San Jose
Romania
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Luning (disambiguation)
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Lunula (disambiguation)
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Lunette (disambiguation)
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