MAGELLANIC

Meaning of MAGELLANIC in English

|majə|lanik adjective

Usage: usually capitalized

Etymology: Straits of Magellan + English -ic

: of, relating to, or characteristic of the Straits of Magellan or that general area of the southern hemisphere

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

MAGELLANIC — (a.) Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.
Английский словарь Webster
MAGELLANIC — ( a. ) Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MAGELLANIC — adj of or pertaining to, or named from, magellan, the navigator.
Webster English vocab
MAGELLANIC — Magellanic BrE AmE ˌmæɡ ɪ ˈlæn ɪk ◂ ˌmædʒ-, -ə- AmE \ ˌmædʒ- ▶ ˌ Magel ˌ lanic ˈ cloud …
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
MAGELLANIC — Magellanic
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MAGELLANIC — Magellanic
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MAGELLANIC — Magellanic
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MAGELLANIC — Magellanic
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MAGELLANIC PENGUIN — noun Date: 1826 a penguin ( Spheniscus magellanicus ) of the southern tip of South America and surrounding islands that …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MAGELLANIC CLOUD — noun Etymology: Ferdinand Magellan Date: circa 1686 either of the two small galaxies that appear as conspicuous patches of light …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
MAGELLANIC CLOUD — Either of two irregular companion Milky Way Galaxy , named for Ferdinand Magellan , whose crew discovered them during the …
Английский словарь Британика
MAGELLANIC PENGUIN — noun Usage: usually capitalized M : a penguin ( Spheniscus magellanicus ) of the southern tip of South America and …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MAGELLANIC CLOUD — noun Usage: usually capitalized M&C : either of the two nearest galaxies to the Milky Way system located within 25 …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
MAGELLANIC CLOUD — Astron. either of two irregular galactic clusters in the southern heavens that are the nearest independent star system to the …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
MAGELLANIC CLOUD — either of two satellite galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy, the vast star system of which the Earth is a …
Britannica English vocabulary
MAGELLANIC CLOUD — Either of two irregular companion galaxies of the Milky Way Galaxy , named for Ferdinand Magellan , whose crew discovered …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
SUPERNOVA — Any of a class of violently exploding stars whose luminosity after eruption suddenly increases many millions of times above its …
Английский словарь Британика
SHAPLEY, HARLOW — born Nov. 2, 1885, Nashville, Mo., U.S. died Oct. 20, 1972, Boulder, Colo. U.S. astronomer. In 1911 he began a …
Английский словарь Британика
POPULATIONS I AND II — Two broad classes of star s and stellar groupings, whose members differ primarily in age, chemical composition, and location in …
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GALAXY — I Any of the billions of systems of star s and interstellar matter that make up the universe . Galaxies …
Английский словарь Британика
CLOUD — I Any visible mass of water droplets, ice crystals, or a mixture of the two that is suspended in the …
Английский словарь Британика
MAGELLAN — I. məˈjelən adjective Usage: usually capitalized Etymology: from the Straits of Magellan, strait between the southern tip of the mainland …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
NUBECULA — (n.) Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.
Английский словарь Webster
COALSACK — (n.) Any one of the spaces in the Milky Way which are very black, owing to the nearly complete absence …
Английский словарь Webster
NUBECULA — ( n. ) Specifically, the Magellanic clouds.
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
MAGELLAN — — Magellanic /maj'euh lan"ik/ , adj. /meuh jel"euhn/ , n. 1. Ferdinand , c1480-1521, Portuguese navigator: discoverer of the Straits …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
SUPERNOVA — plural supernovas, or supernovae, any of a class of violently exploding stars whose luminosity after eruption suddenly increases millions or …
Britannica English vocabulary
S DORADUS — variable supergiant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (the latter is one of two galactic companions to the Milky Way …
Britannica English vocabulary
MILKY WAY GALAXY — Paul W. Hodge large spiral system consisting of several billion stars, one of which is the Sun. It takes its …
Britannica English vocabulary
COSMOS — Hubble inferred a uniformity in the spatial distribution of galaxies through number counts in deep photographic surveys of selected areas …
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GALAXY — n. 25B6; noun a distant galaxy : STAR SYSTEM, solar system, constellation; stars. See list. a galaxy of the rock …
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