Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A constellation in the equatorial region of the Southern Hemisphere near Aquarius and Eridanus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A whale.
- noun [capitalized] A southern constellation, the Whale, in advance of Orion. It was anciently pictured as some kind of marine animal, possibly a seal.
- noun A genus of whales.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun astronomy A
winter constellation of thenorthern sky, said to resemble awhale . It includes the starMira .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a large constellation on the equator near Pisces and Aquarius
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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One CDO, called Cetus ABS CDO 2006-3, is an example.
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Today, Christoffer Karoff at the University of Birmingham and a mate make a new suggestion based on their study of kappa Ceti, a star some 30 light years away in the constellation of Cetus which is very much like our Sun as it would have been 4 billion years ago.
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Roche said Stanford could never have obtained the patents without the information the school obtained from Cetus.
High Court Sides With Roche in Patent Fight Brent Kendall 2011
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I say this in light of the fact that on the same day as the announcement of the opening of the VLT, the Hubble space telescope released yet another stunning, close-up interstellar image, this one of a spiral galaxy in the Cetus constellation.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: The Bizarro Mirror at the Center of the Universe Todd Hartley 2012
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One of the researchers, however, had entered into an agreement with Cetus Corp., a local biotech company, under which he pledged to assign his patent rights to Cetus in exchange for access to the company's information and facilities.
High Court Sides With Roche in Patent Fight Brent Kendall 2011
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The high court's ruling affirmed a lower-court opinion that said the researcher's agreement with Cetus trumped the contract he had signed with Stanford.
High Court Sides With Roche in Patent Fight Brent Kendall 2011
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I say this in light of the fact that on the same day as the announcement of the opening of the VLT, the Hubble space telescope released yet another stunning, close-up interstellar image, this one of a spiral galaxy in the Cetus constellation.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: The Bizarro Mirror at the Center of the Universe Todd Hartley 2012
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I say this in light of the fact that on the same day as the announcement of the opening of the VLT, the Hubble space telescope released yet another stunning, close-up interstellar image, this one of a spiral galaxy in the Cetus constellation.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: The Bizarro Mirror at the Center of the Universe Todd Hartley 2012
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I say this in light of the fact that on the same day as the announcement of the opening of the VLT, the Hubble space telescope released yet another stunning, close-up interstellar image, this one of a spiral galaxy in the Cetus constellation.
Todd Hartley: I'm With Stupid: The Bizarro Mirror at the Center of the Universe Todd Hartley 2012
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Even the most bare bones details promise wondrous adventure: Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae (daughter of King Acrisius), is raised by the fisherman Dictys, slays the Gorgon Medusa and ultimately rescues Andromeda, daughter of Cepheus, from the sea serpent Cetus (replaced with the Kraken for the movies) and marries her.
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