Lune
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Lune may refer to:
Rivers
- River Lune, located in Lancashire and Cumbria, England
- River Lune, Durham, located in Durham, England
- Lune (river) a 43 km-long tributary of the Weser in Germany
- Lune River (Tasmania), located in south-eastern Tasmania, Australia
Place names
- Lune Forest in Cumbria, England
- Lune River, Tasmania, Australia, a town near the mouth of the river of the same name
Mathematics
- Lune (geometry) - 2-dimensional lunes
- Spherical lune - 3-dimensional lunes
- Lune of Hippocrates, in geometry a plane region bounded by arcs of circles and amenable to quadrature
Fictional places and characters
- Lhûn or River Lune in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth legendarium
- Gulf of Lune, where the latter flowed
- King Lune a fictional character in The Horse and His Boy in The Chronicles of Narnia
- Balron Lune a fictional character in Saint Seiya
- Misha Arsellec Lune, a fictional character from Ar tonelico: Melody of Elemia
Other uses
- Lune (poetry), a fixed-form variant of haiku in English
- In real tennis, a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court
See also
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