Definizione monolingua

moonshine

moonshine (plural moonshines)

1. (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
2. Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.

   They watered down the moonshine.

3. (colloquial) nonsense

   He was talking moonshine.

4. (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see monstrous moonshine.

Definizione dizionario moonshine

Altri significati:

(colloquial) nonsense

Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.

(literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.

illicit liquor

(mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see monstrous moonshine.

shine of the moon