SHORT-PERIOD COMET

Meaning of SHORT-PERIOD COMET in English

noun

: one of numerous periodic comets whose times of revolution around the sun range from 3.3 years (as for Encke's comet) to a few dozen years

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SHORT-PERIOD COMET — короткопериодическая комета
Англо-Русский физический словарь
COMET — comete
English interlingue dictionary
COMET — noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English ~a, from Latin, from Greek komētēs, literally, long-haired, from koman to wear …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PERIOD — I In geology, the basic unit of the geologic time scale. During these spans of time, specific systems of rocks …
Английский словарь Британика
COMET — I Any of a class of small icy objects orbiting the Sun and developing diffuse gaseous envelopes and often long …
Английский словарь Британика
SHORT — I. ˈshȯ(ə)r]t, -ȯ(ə)], usu ]d.+V\ adjective ( -er/-est ) Etymology: Middle English short, shert, from Old English scort, sceort; akin …
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COMET — ˈkämə̇t, usu- ə̇d.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English comete, from Old English cometa, from Latin cometa, cometes, from …
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COMET — (n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun …
Английский словарь Webster
COMET — ( n. ) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to …
Webster's Revised Unabridged English Dictionary
SHORT — — shortness , n. /shawrt/ , adj., shorter, shortest , adv., n., v. adj. 1. having little length; not long. …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
PERIOD — /pear"ee euhd/ , n. 1. a rather large interval of time that is meaningful in the life of a person, …
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COMET — — cometary /kom"i ter'ee/ , cometic /keuh met"ik/ , cometical , adj. — cometlike , adj. /kom"it/ , n. Astron. …
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COMET — n. celestial body with a luminous tail
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
SHORT — I. ˈshȯrt adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Old English sceort; akin to Old High German scurz short, Old Norse skortr …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PERIOD — I. ˈpir-ē-əd noun Etymology: Middle English periode, from Middle French, from Medieval Latin, Latin, & Greek; Medieval Latin periodus period …
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COMET — noun Etymology: Middle English comete, from Old English cometa, from Latin, from Greek komētēs, literally, long-haired, from koman to wear …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
SHORT — noun a summary account. 2. short ·noun short, inferior hemp. 3. short ·noun breeches; shortclothes. 4. short ·noun a short …
Webster English vocab
PERIOD — vt to put an end to. 2. period ·noun a complete musical sentence. 3. period ·vi to come to a …
Webster English vocab
COMET — noun a member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun …
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COMET — [ 'kɒmɪt ] ■ noun a celestial object which consists of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near …
Concise Oxford English vocab
SHORT — [short] adj [ME, fr. OE sceort; akin to OHG scurz short, ON skortr lack] (bef. 12c) 1 a: having little …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COMET — [com.et] n [ME comete, fr. OE cometa, fr. L, fr. Gk kometes, lit., long-haired, fr. koman to wear long hair, …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
COMET — any of a class of small celestial objects orbiting the Sun and developing diffuse gaseous envelopes and often long luminous …
Britannica English vocabulary
COMET — comet BrE AmE ˈkɒm ɪt § -ət AmE ˈkɑːm- ▷ comet|s s
Longman Pronunciation English Dictionary
SHORT — / ʃɔːt; NAmE ʃɔːrt/ adjective , adverb , noun , verb ■ adjective ( short·er , short·est ) LENGTH / …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PERIOD — / ˈpɪəriəd; NAmE ˈpɪr-/ noun , adverb , adjective ■ noun LENGTH OF TIME 1. a particular length of time …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
SHORT — I. short 1 S1 W1 /ʃɔːt $ ʃɔːrt/ BrE AmE adjective ( comparative shorter , superlative shortest ) [ Word …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
PERIOD — I. pe ‧ ri ‧ od 1 S1 W1 AC /ˈpɪəriəd $ ˈpɪr-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1300-1400 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COMET — com ‧ et /ˈkɒmət, ˈkɒmɪt $ ˈkɑː-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: cometa …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
COMET — Comet BrE AmE a British company which sells electrical or electronic goods for the home, such as televisions, cameras, washing …
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SHORT — adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
SHORT — adj., adv., n., & v. adj. 1 a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
SHORT — adj., adv., n., & v. --adj. 1. a measuring little; not long from end to end (a short distance). b …
Oxford English vocab
SHORT — I. ADJECTIVE AND ADVERB USES /ʃɔ:(r)t/ ( shorter, shortest) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
PERIOD — ( periods) Frequency: The word is one of the 1500 most common words in English. 1. A period is a …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
COMET — ( comets) A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun. Halley’s Comet is …
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COMET — (~s) A ~ is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun. Halley’s Comet is going …
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PERIOD — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a brief period/time ▪ He lived there all his life, apart from a brief …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
COMET — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN nucleus ▪ Clearly comet nuclei are very weak. ▪ As long as a comet …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
PERIOD — n. Baroque period Cambrian Period Carboniferous Period Cretaceous Period Devonian Period Genroku period Heian period Heisei period Jurassic Period Kamakura …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
COMET — n. Encke's Comet Hale Bopp Comet Halley's Comet
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COMET — n. Any of a class of small icy objects orbiting the Sun and developing diffuse gaseous envelopes and often long …
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SHORT
Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
SHORT — INDEX: short/not long 1. short in length or distance 2. when something you say or write is short 3. to …
Longman Activator English vocab
SHORT — n. 25B6; adjective a short piece of string : SMALL, little, tiny; informal teeny. short people : SMALL, little, petite, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
COMET — I . Comet the world’s first commercial jet plane, operated by BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) from 1952. Comets were …
Oxford Guide to British and American Culture English vocabulary
COMET — 1) ист. "Комета" (реактивный пассажирский самолёт компании "Де Хэвиленд" (De Havilland) 2) ист. "Комета" (железнодорожный экспресс Лондон - Манчестер) 3) …
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
SHORT — adj. 1 small, little, slight, petite, diminutive, wee, tiny, elfin, minuscule; midget, dwarfish, squat, dumpy, runty, stubby, stunted, Colloq pint-sized, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
SHORT — 1. прил. 1) а) короткий, недлинный short legs ≈ короткие ноги a short road ≈ недлинный путь short way off …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PERIOD — 1. сущ. 1) период; промежуток времени, срок for a period ≈ на время extra period ≈ добавочное, дополнительное время cooling-off …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
COMET — сущ. комета (астрономия) комета comet комета
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
SHORT — 1. ʃɔ:t n 1. краткое содержание; суть in short - вкратце, короче говоря, одним словом for short - для краткости, …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PERIOD — period.ogg 1. ʹpı(ə)rıəd n 1. 1> период, промежуток времени; срок lasting for a period of three months - длящийся три …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
COMET — comet.ogg ʹkɒmıt n астр. комета
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
PERIOD — 1) период, промежуток, интервал 2) цикл 3) продолжительность, длительность 4) полигр. , вчт. точка 5) матем. период • - acceleration …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
PERIOD — 1) период, промежуток, интервал 2) цикл 3) продолжительность, длительность 4) полигр., вчт. точка 5) матем. период • - acceleration period - admission period - afterblowing period - aircraft service …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
PERIOD — 1) интервал времени 2) круг 3) период 4) период периодической системы 5) повторяющаяся группа цифр в десятичной дроби 6) пора 7) пребывание 8) продолжительность 9) срок 10) точка 11) фаза 12) …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
COMET — комета nucleus of comet — ядро кометы comet outburst — кометное извержение
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
SHORT — short прил.1) а) короткий, недлинный short legs — короткие ноги a short road — недлинный путь short way off — …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PERIOD — period сущ.1) период; промежуток времени, срок for a period — на время extra period — спорт. добавочное, дополнительное время - …
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
SHORT — 1. ʃɔ:t n 1. краткое содержание; суть in short - вкратце, короче говоря, одним словом for short - для краткости, …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
PERIOD — 1. ʹpı(ə)rıəd n 1. 1> период, промежуток времени; срок lasting for a period of three months - длящийся три месяца, …
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