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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ECLIPSING

ppr. Concealing; obscuring; darkening; clouding.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

eclipsing binary

e clips ing bi na ry ▶noun Astronomy a binary star whose brightness varies periodically as the two components pass one in front of the other.

 

Oxford Dictionary

eclipsing binary

eclips |ing bin ¦ary ▶noun Astronomy a binary star whose brightness varies periodically as the two components pass one in front of the other.