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Noun
/ˈsənˌset/,
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sunsets, plural;
  1. The time in the evening when the sun disappears or daylight fades
    • - sunset was still a couple of hours away
  2. The colors and light visible in the sky on an occasion of the sun's disappearance in the evening, considered as a view or spectacle
    • - a blue and gold sunset
  3. A period of decline, esp. the last years of a person's life
    • - the sunset of his life
  1. the time in the evening at which the sun begins to fall below the horizon
  2. of a declining industry or technology; "sunset industries"
  3. atmospheric phenomena accompanying the daily disappearance of the sun
  4. sunset(a): providing for termination; "a program with a sunset provision"
  5. "Sunset (Bird of Prey)" is a song by Fatboy Slim from his 2000 album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars.
  6. Sunset, also known as the Retreat Call, is a bugle call played in United Kingdom and British Commonwealth countries to signal the end of the official military day. royalmarinesbands.co.uk, Retrieved 18 July 2010 It uses a slightly different melody to the US Retreat bugle call. ...
  7. At right is displayed the color sunset.
  8. Sunset is a 1988 film released by TriStar Pictures. Written and directed by Blake Edwards, the movie stars Bruce Willis as legendary western actor Tom Mix and James Garner as legendary lawman Wyatt Earp.
  9. Sunset is a town in St. Landry Parish, Louisiana, United States. The population was 2,352 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Opelousas-Eunice Micropolitan Statistical Area.
  10. Sunset is a lifestyle magazine in the United States. Sunset focuses on homes, cooking, gardening, and travel, with a focus almost exclusively on the Western United States. ...
  11. The play Sunset was written by Isaac Babel in 1926 and based on his Odessa Tales.
  12. Marques Barrett Houston (born August 4, 1981 in Los Angeles, California) is an American R&B singer, rapper, and actor. A member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx until 2002, he went solo in 2003.
  13. (SUNSETTING) A condition in which an infant's eye seems to always be looking downward.
  14. (Sunsetting) A process to restrict, phase out, and eventually ban the manufacture, generation, use, storage, discharge, and disposal of a persistent toxic substance.
  15. (Sunsetting) Confusion or agitation in the evening.
  16. (Sunsetting) Indication that funding for a specific bill is running out soon.
  17. Sunsetting is when, at the time a regulation is made, a specific date is set on which that regulation will expire unless it is re-made. ...
  18. The ceremony of lowering the ensign and jack particularly (but not exclusively) aboard a warship or naval shore establishment at the local time of sunset or at a specified time at the end of a working day - conducting or making sunset or evening colours (see also ‘colours 5)’ and ‘retreat ...
  19. A preset setting on the camera. It is one of the selections for the [SCENE] function. Use this setting when taking pictures of sunsets and scenes illuminated by the glow of twilight. ...
  20. Provision of a tax act that terminates or repeals other parts of the act on a certain date unless legislation is passed to extend them.
  21. When a TLD is being “phased out”, the time period covering the last allowed registration or renewal until the final expiration of the last domain in the TLD.
  22. "Sunset" requires the periodic statutory review of state agencies, their programs, task forces or other related activities established by statute. It is the exercise of the state's regulatory authority over agency activities to determine whether they continue to be necessary and be funded. ...
  23. A legislative term indicating the stated procedure and date for continuation or termination of a categorical program.
  24. Solo type. Small to medium-sized, pear-shaped fruit. Orange-red skin and flesh. Very sweet. Dwarf, high yielding plant. Originated at the University of Hawaii.
  25. Completion of a cycle; a verdict being reached / Ending; aging; winding down