Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to astronomy.
- adjective Of enormous magnitude; immense.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining or related to astronomy; connected with or relating to astronomic observation or research.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to astronomy; in accordance with the methods or principles of astronomy.
- adjective See under
Clock . - adjective See under
Day . - adjective See under
Sexagesimal .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective not comparable Of or relating to
astronomy . - adjective comparable Very
large ; ofvast measure.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective relating or belonging to the science of astronomy
- adjective inconceivably large
Etymologies
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Examples
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"One hundred million years to a human seems an awful long time, but in astronomical time periods, that's nothing compared to the life of the stars."
Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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"One hundred million years to a human seems an awful long time, but in astronomical time periods, that's nothing compared to the life of the stars."
Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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In addition, it took 11 years of observing to tease out the presence of the habitable zone planet, a short time in astronomical terms.
First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system Marc Kaufman 2010
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"One hundred million years to a human seems an awful long time, but in astronomical time periods, that's nothing compared to the life of the stars."
Oldest Galaxy Discovered From 13.1 Billion Years Ago, Astronomers Say (PHOTO) AP/Huffington Post 2010
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In addition, it took 11 years of observing to tease out the presence of the habitable zone planet, a short time in astronomical terms.
First 'habitable zone' planet found outside solar system Marc Kaufman 2010
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WASHINGTON & mdash; The cost of NASA's replacement for the Hubble Space Telescope is giving new meaning to the word astronomical, growing another $1.5 billion, according to a new internal NASA study released Wednesday.
NASA: James Webb Space Telescope Costs Becoming Astronomical The Huffington Post News Team 2010
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Like whirling tornados coming in astronomical sequence of order and in numbers, Barack Obama is definitely twisting across the nation pounding CHANGE without boundaries with a fury!
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(The apparent motion against the stars is due to the fact that Comet SW3 has been fairly close to the Earth, about 25 times the distance between the Earth and Moon; that's close in astronomical terms.)
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(The apparent motion against the stars is due to the fact that Comet SW3 has been fairly close to the Earth, about 25 times the distance between the Earth and Moon; that's close in astronomical terms.)
Archive 2006-05-01 JDsg 2006
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If you did well on it, you're pretty well versed in astronomical knowledge.
April 2005 2005
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