Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • proper noun astronomy : A yellow supergiant in the constellation Perseus; Alpha (α) Persei.
  • proper noun astronomy : A variable star in the constellation Pegasus; Gamma (γ) Pegasi. It forms one corner of the square of Pegasus.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Arabic الجانب (al-jānib) "the side".

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Algenib.

Examples

  • Extend the line from Markab to Algenib over twice its length and beyond the left of our chart towards the conspicuous mag -2.8 planet Jupiter, now nearing is brightest and best at opposition on 29 October in Aries.

    Starwatch: The Pegasus Hour 2011

  • Bobby Harper spent his childhood stalking the caves of Epsilon Indi V, playing with the raincats of Menkar VII, building castles in the purple sands of Beta Algenib III, and helping his mother catalogue the artifacts of over a thousand cultures within and beyond the Federation.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

  • Bobby Harper spent his childhood stalking the caves of Epsilon Indi V, playing with the raincats of Menkar VII, building castles in the purple sands of Beta Algenib III, and helping his mother catalogue the artifacts of over a thousand cultures within and beyond the Federation.

    The Pandora Principle Carolyn Clowes 1990

  • Note a dull red star near Algol, and a pretty pair just above Algenib.

    A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904

  • Algenib never sets in the latitude of New York, just touching the horizon at its lower culmination.

    A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904

  • Algenib and Algol form with γ Andromedæ, a right-angled triangle.

    A Field Book of the Stars William Tyler Olcott 1904

  • Algenib in Perseus and Almaach and Algol in Andromeda form a right-angled triangle, illustrate the 47th problem, and display the

    Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850

  • Pegasus actually supplies only three stars of the Great Square: Markab, Scheat and Algenib.

    SPACE.com 2008

  • Album: Memoirs at the End of the World Song: Girl from Algenib

    NPR Topics: News 2009

  • Album: Memoirs at the End of the World Song: Girl from Algenib

    NPR Topics: News 2009

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.