Lune may refer to:

Rivers

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 der ...

, in Lancashire and Cumbria, England *

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 * Lune (Weser), a 43 km-long tributary of the Weser in Germany *

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

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 * Lune Forest, Site of Special Scientific Interest in Cumbria, England *

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-sc ...

, Australia, a town near the mouth of the river of the same name * Lüne, a former village near Lüneburg in Saxony where Charlemagne mustered his troops against the Avars

Mathematics

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 **

Lune of Hippocrates In geometry, the lune of Hippocrates, named after Hippocrates of Chios, is a lune bounded by arcs of two circles, the smaller of which has as its diameter a chord spanning a right angle on the larger circle. Equivalently, it is a non-convex p ...

, in geometry, a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature *

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 ...

, a 3-dimensional lune

People

* Ted Lune (born 1920), British actor, played Private Len Bone in the TV series ''The Army Game'' * Dragutin Jovanović-Lune (1892–1932), nicknamed Lune (Луне), Serbian guerrilla fighter, officer, politician, delegate and mayor of Vrnjci

Films

* ''Moon'' (2020 film) (french: Lune, link=no), a short film by Zoé Pelchat * ''Lune'' (2021 film), a 2021 feature film by Arturo Pérez Torres and Aviva Armour-Ostroff

Ships

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 * PS Lune (1892), paddle steamer passenger vessel operated from 1892 to 1913

Fictional places and characters

* Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium * Gulf of Lune, also from J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium *

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. A *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

* Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English * '' La Lune'', a former French newspaper *

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