ENCKE'S COMET

Meaning of ENCKE'S COMET in English

/eng"keuhz, -keez/

a comet, discovered by J.L. Pons, with a period of 3.3 years, the shortest period known.

[ named after Johann F. Encke (1791-1865), German astronomer ]

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ENCKE'S COMET — Faint comet having the shortest orbital period (about 3.3 years) of any known, first observed in 1786. It was the …
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ENCKE'S COMET — faint comet having the shortest orbital period (about 3.3 years) of any known; it was also only the second comet …
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ENCKE'S COMET — Faint comet having the shortest orbital period (about 3.3 years) of any known, first observed in 1786. It was the …
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COMET — I Any of a class of small icy objects orbiting the Sun and developing diffuse gaseous envelopes and often long …
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COMET — n. Encke's Comet Hale Bopp Comet Halley's Comet
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COMET — comete
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COMET — noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English ~a, from Latin, from Greek komētēs, literally, long-haired, from koman to wear …
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COMET — ˈkämə̇t, usu- ə̇d.+V noun ( -s ) Etymology: Middle English comete, from Old English cometa, from Latin cometa, cometes, from …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
COMET — (n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun …
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COMET — ( n. ) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to …
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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
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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 …
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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 …
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COMET — [com.et] n [ME comete, fr. OE cometa, fr. L, fr. Gk kometes, lit., long-haired, fr. koman to wear long hair, …
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COMET — any of a class of small celestial objects orbiting the Sun and developing diffuse gaseous envelopes and often long luminous …
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COMET — comet BrE AmE ˈkɒm ɪt § -ət AmE ˈkɑːm- ▷ comet|s s
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COMET — com ‧ et /ˈkɒmət, ˈkɒmɪt $ ˈkɑː-/ BrE AmE noun [countable] [ Date: 1100-1200 ; Language: Latin ; Origin: cometa …
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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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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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COMET — noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN nucleus ▪ Clearly comet nuclei are very weak. ▪ As long as a 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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COMET — I . Comet the world’s first commercial jet plane, operated by BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation) from 1952. Comets were …
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COMET — 1) ист. "Комета" (реактивный пассажирский самолёт компании "Де Хэвиленд" (De Havilland) 2) ист. "Комета" (железнодорожный экспресс Лондон - Манчестер) 3) …
Англо-Русский словарь Britain
COMET — сущ. комета (астрономия) комета comet комета
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
COMET — comet.ogg ʹkɒmıt n астр. комета
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
COMET — комета nucleus of comet — ядро кометы comet outburst — кометное извержение
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
COMET — - bronze-tailed comet - gray-bellied comet - red-tailed comet
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COMET — - bronze-tailed comet - gray-bellied comet - red-tailed comet
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COMET — 1) ист. "Комета" (реактивный пассажирский самолёт компании "Де Хэвиленд" [De Havilland]) 2) ист. "Комета" (железнодорожный экспресс Лондон - Манчестер) 3) (Comet) средний …
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COMET — сущ. комета (астрономия) комета comet комета
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ENCKE'S DIVISION — Astron. a dark region within the outer major ring of Saturn. [ see ENCKE'S COMET ]
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
ENCKE, JOHANN FRANZ — born Sept. 23, 1791, Hamburg died Aug. 26, 1865, Spandau, Ger. German astronomer who in 1819 established the period of …
Britannica English vocabulary
JOHANN FRANZ ENCKE — Энке, Иоганн Франц
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COMET ENCKE — Комета Энке
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SHORT-PERIOD COMET — noun : one of numerous periodic comets whose times of revolution around the sun range from 3.3 years (as for …
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SCHIAPARELLI, GIOVANNI VIRGINIO — born March 14, 1835, Savigliano, Italy died July 4, 1910, Milan Italian astronomer and senator whose reports of groups of …
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GALLE, JOHANN GOTTFRIED — born June 9, 1812, near Grfenhainichen, Prussian Saxony died July 10, 1910, Potsdam, Ger. German astronomer who on Sept. 23, …
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WELL — I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a better/greater/deeper understanding ▪ All of this will lead to a better understanding of …
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UP
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IS — COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a baby is born ▪ Let me know as soon as the baby is born. a …
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