Definitions

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  • proper noun astronomy A large blue star in the constellation of Orion; Epsilon (ε) Orionis. It is one of the three stars that form Orion's Belt.

Etymologies

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From Arabic النظام (an-niżām), related to the word نظم (nażm) "string of pearls"

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Examples

  • “This is the Alnitak, next is the Alnilam, and finally the prestigious Mintaka award.”

    Artemis the Brave Joan Holub 2010

  • “This is the Alnitak, next is the Alnilam, and finally the prestigious Mintaka award.”

    Artemis the Brave Joan Holub 2010

  • The three bright stars are Alnitak, Alnilam and Mintaka.

    Orions Belt Bente Lilja Bye 2008

  • “This is the Alnitak, next is the Alnilam, and finally the prestigious Mintaka award.”

    Artemis the Brave Joan Holub 2010

  • Red Betelgeuse, brilliant blue Rigel, Bellatrix and Saiph; Mintaka, Alnilam and Alniak in the hunter's belt.

    The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006

  • “What God does, we will,” Joel Cahill told his disciples in Alnilam.

    Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998

  • It was another decade before Alnilam was published, and Crux never developed further than those few dozen pages of notes I read twenty years later at Litchfield.

    Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998

  • Excerpts from Self-Interviews (1970), Sorties (1971), The Zodiac (1976), and Alnilam (1987), by James Dickey, reprinted with permission of Bantam Doubleday Dell.

    Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998

  • He published a chapter from Alnilam in Esquire magazine in early 1976—and got his face on the cover.

    Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998

  • There had been another novel about the war, Alnilam, which came out in 1987 and centered on the training in North Carolina.

    Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998

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