0 present participle of eclipse
2 to make another person or thing seem much less important, good, or famous:
They are not eclipsing, but fluctuations in apparent magnitude occur due to changes in the amount of light emitting area visible to the observer.
It is an eclipsing binary star, with a period of 2.3272 days.
Eclipsing infantry positions and observation cloches were also provided.
After subtracting the bestfitting eclipsing binary model, the residuals were analyzed to determine the pulsation properties.
So far, orders worth £18 billion have been taken on the first two days, eclipsing the amount taken during the whole of the last show, two years ago.
Therefore, the danger of one school eclipsing the other in popular favour does not seem to me a very sound argument.
You cannot go eclipsing these great legal luminaries because of accidents like that.
Alongside this, and eclipsing it in rhetoric, there is his incomes policy.
