Baily's beads
- Astronomy a string of bright points seen at the edge of the darkened moon at the beginning or end of totality in an eclipse of the sun, caused by the unevenness of the lunar topography【天文】倍利珠（日全食食甚前后因月球地形起伏不平而看到的一连串亮点）。
词源
mid 19th cent.: named after Francis Baily （1774-1844）， English astronomer.