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Words of science: crepuscular

06 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by sedeer in Language, Words of Science

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crepuscular, dawn, dusk, etymology, nature, Popular science, science, twilight, Words of Science

Spider at twilight. (Photo credit: Hannele Luhtasela-El Showk)Like many other fields, science has its own style of communication full of specific jargon and guided by unwritten rules.  Most of the posts on this blog focus on breaching this barrier to the public’s understanding and appreciation of science.  In this series, I’d like to take another approach by highlighting scientific words which have escaped the confines of jargon to reach a broader appeal because of their sound or their evocative power as metaphors.  Today’s word is crepuscular.  [Previous words of science were petrichor, alluvium, and nychthemeron]
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