Lune
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Lune or Luna is a poetic name for Earth's Moon.
It is also:
- A river in the United Kingdom: River Lune
- The name of some natural features in J. R. R. Tolkien's fictional universe of Middle-earth:
- the river Lhûn or Lune,
- the Gulf of Lune, and
- the Ered Luin, sometimes called "Ered Lune", the Blue Mountains.
In mathematics, a lune is the area on the surface of the sphere between two great half-circles on the sphere.
In real tennis, a lune is a point scoring opening in a jeu quarré court.