moonshine

  1. Noun.  (literally) The light of the moon; moonlight.
  2. Noun.  Illegally distilled liquor, so named because much of the manufacturing process often is conducted without artificial light at night when the moon is shining.
  3. Noun.  (colloquial) nonsense.
  4. Noun.  (mathematics) A branch of pure mathematics relating the monster group to an invariant of elliptic functions; see (w, monstrous moonshine) .

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