ELLIPTICAL GALAXY

Meaning of ELLIPTICAL GALAXY in English

Function: noun

Date: 1948

: a galaxy that has a generally elliptical shape and that has no apparent internal structure or spiral arms ― called also elliptical ― compare SPIRAL GALAXY

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ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — noun Date: 1948 a galaxy that has a generally elliptical shape and that has no apparent internal structure or spiral …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — noun : a galaxy of a generally elliptical shape, from round to lenticular, differing chiefly from other types in having …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — Astron. a type of galaxy having the shape of a spheroid or ellipsoid, rather than a disk. Also called elliptical, …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — Date: 1948 : a galaxy that has a generally elliptical shape and that has no apparent internal structure or spiral …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — [elliptical galaxy] n (1948): a galaxy that has a generally elliptical shape and that has no apparent internal structure or …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — Эллиптическая галактика
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — эллиптическая галактика
Англо-Русский физический словарь
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY — Эллиптическая галактика
Британский Англо-Русский словарь
ELLIPTICAL — initlog og kalingin
English-Visayan vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL — or elliptic adjective Etymology: Greek elleiptikos defective, marked by ellipsis, from elleipein Date: 1656 of, relating to, or shaped like …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
GALAXY — I Any of the billions of systems of star s and interstellar matter that make up the universe . Galaxies …
Английский словарь Британика
ELLIPTICAL — adjective see elliptic
Webster's New International English Dictionary
GALAXY — ˈgaləksē, -si sometimes ˈgāl- noun ( -es ) Etymology: Middle English galaxie, galaxias, from Medieval Latin & Latin; Medieval Latin …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — (a.) Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
Английский словарь Webster
ELLIPTICAL — (a.) Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
Английский словарь Webster
ELLIPTICAL — ( a. ) Of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the form of an ellipse; oblong, with rounded ends.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — ( a. ) Having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
GALAXY — /gal"euhk see/ , n. , pl. galaxies . 1. Astron. a. a large system of stars held together by mutual …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — — ellipticalness , n. /i lip"ti keuhl/ , adj. Also, elliptic . 1. pertaining to or having the form of …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — adj. oval, egg-shaped; containing ellipsis
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
GALAXY — noun ( plural -ax·ies ) Etymology: Middle English galaxie, galaxias, from Late Latin galaxias, from Greek, from galakt-, gala milk; …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL — adjective or el·lip·tic -tik Etymology: Greek elleiptikos defective, marked by ellipsis, from elleipein Date: 1656 1. : of, relating to, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
GALAXY — noun a splendid assemblage of persons or things. 2. galaxy ·noun the milky way; that luminous tract, or belt, which …
Webster English vocab
ELLIPTICAL — adj having a part omitted; as, an elliptical phrase. 2. elliptical ·adj of or pertaining to an ellipse; having the …
Webster English vocab
GALAXY — ■ noun ( plural galaxies ) 1》 a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, …
Concise Oxford English vocab
ELLIPTICAL — ■ adjective 1》 (of speech or text) using or involving ellipsis (omission of words), especially so as to be difficult …
Concise Oxford English vocab
GALAXY — [gal.axy] n, pl -ax.ies [ME galaxie, galaxias, fr. LL galaxias, fr. Gk, fr. galakt-, gala milk; akin to L lac …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
ELLIPTICAL — [el.lip.ti.cal] or el.lip.tic adj [Gk elleiptikos defective, marked by ellipsis, fr. elleipein] (1656) 1: of, relating to, or shaped like …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
GALAXY — any of the systems of stars and interstellar matter that make up the Cosmos. Many such assemblages are so enormous …
Britannica English vocabulary
GALAXY — / ˈgæləksi; NAmE / noun ( pl. -ies ) 1. [ C ] any of the large systems of stars, …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — / ɪˈlɪptɪkl; NAmE / adjective 1. (especially grammar ) with a word or words left out of a sentence deliberately …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GALAXY — Galaxy BrE AmE trademark 1 . a type of chocolate bar made of light-brown chocolate by the British company Rowntree …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GALAXY — gal ‧ ax ‧ y /ˈɡæləksi/ BrE AmE noun ( plural galaxies ) [ Date: 1300-1400 ; Language: Late Latin …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
ELLIPTICAL — el ‧ lip ‧ ti ‧ cal /ɪˈlɪptɪk ə l/ BrE AmE ( also el‧lip‧tic /-tɪk/) adjective [ Date: 1600-1700 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
GALAXY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 any of many independent systems of stars, gas, dust, etc., held together by gravitational attraction. 2 …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
GALAXY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 any of many independent systems of stars, gas, dust, etc., held together by gravitational attraction. 2 …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
GALAXY — n. (pl. -ies) 1. any of many independent systems of stars, gas, dust, etc., held together by gravitational attraction. 2 …
Oxford English vocab
GALAXY — see galaxy
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GALAXY — also Galaxy ( galaxies) 1. A galaxy is an extremely large group of stars and planets that extends over many …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — 1. Something that is elliptical has the shape of an ellipse. ( FORMAL ) ...the moon’s elliptical orbit... ADJ 2. …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
GALAXY — see galaxy
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
ELLIPTICAL — 1. Something that is ~ has the shape of an ellipse. (FORMAL) ...the moon’s ~ orbit... ADJ 2. Elliptical references …
Collins COBUILD - Толковый словарь английского языка для изучающих язык
GALAXY — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a distant planet/galaxy/star ▪ They saw telescope images of the distant planet Neptune. COLLOCATIONS FROM …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL — adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN orbit ▪ Radial burns can also be used to circularize an elliptical orbit . …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
GALAXY — [noun] [C] - one of the independent groups of stars in the universeAstronomers at the University of California discovered one …
Cambridge English vocab
ELLIPTICAL — elliptic [adjective]The comet is in an elliptical orbit which brings it close to the earth at regular intervals.
Cambridge English vocab
GALAXY — n. Andromeda Galaxy Milky Way Galaxy cluster of galaxies
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GALAXY — n. Any of the billions of systems of star s and interstellar matter that make up the universe . Galaxies …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
GALAXY — Synonyms and related words : Milky Way, Via Lactea, army, barred spiral, barred spiral galaxy, big name, celebrity, cluster, cohue, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL — Synonyms and related words : Spartan, abbreviated, abridged, abstracted, aposiopestic, bell-like, bell-shaped, bobbed, brief, brusque, campaniform, campanular, campanulate, capsule, capsulized, …
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL — a. See elliptic
Dictionary of English Synonyms
ELLIPTICAL — adj.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary Second Edition
GALAXY — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ distant , remote ▪ nearby , nearest , neighbouring/neighboring ▪ known ▪ young ▪ large , massive …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — adj. Elliptical is used with these nouns: ↑ galaxy , ↑ orbit , ↑ shape
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
ELLIPTICAL — See ↑ CIRCLE 3
Longman Activator English vocab
GALAXY — n. 25B6; noun a distant galaxy : STAR SYSTEM, solar system, constellation; stars. See list. a galaxy of the rock …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
ELLIPTICAL — adj. 25B6; adjective an elliptical shape : OVAL, egg-shaped, elliptic, ovate, ovoid, oviform, ellipsoidal; Botany obovate. elliptical phraseology : CRYPTIC, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
GALAXY — < language > An extensible language in the vein of EL/1 and RCC . ["Introduction to the Galaxy Language", Anne …
FOLDOC Computer English Dictionary
GALAXY — (астрономия) Млечный путь, Галактика галактика - * of galaxies (астрономия) метагалактика плеяда - a * of talent плеяда талантливых людей …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ELLIPTICAL — (астрономия) эллиптическая галактика, галактика эллиптической формы (математика) эллиптический; овальный эллиптический; с пропуском (чего-л.) - * construction эллиптическая конструкция краткий, сжатый …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
ELLIPTICAL — Эллиптический
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
ELLIPTICAL — Овальный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
GALAXY — galaxy.ogg ʹgæləksı n 1. 1> (Galaxy) астр. Млечный путь, Галактика 2> галактика galaxy of galaxies - астр. метагалактика 2. плеяда …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
ELLIPTICAL — elliptical.ogg _I 1. ıʹlıptık(ə)l n астр. эллиптическаягалактика, галактика эллиптической формы 2. ıʹlıptık(ə)l = elliptic 1 _II ıʹlıptık(ə)l a 1. = …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей

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