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- noun astronomy Genitive form of
Taurus used when naming stars, such as α Tauri.
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Examples
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In Berosus an hill of the people called Tauri, there are three fountains, euery one of them deadly without remedy, & yet without griefe.
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In Berosus an hill of the people called Tauri, there are three fountains, euery one of them deadly without remedy, & yet without griefe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Auriga, with Bellatrix and Betelgueux in Orion, form two isosceles triangles with β Tauri, that is equidistant from each pair; while the first four make a right-angled parallelogram, -- the oblong square so often mentioned in our Degrees.
Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Albert Pike 1850
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Berosus an hill of the people called Tauri, there are three fountains, euery one of them deadly without remedy, & yet without griefe.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Though 2011 Taurus (Tauri?) are hitting Ford stores right now, the main difference between them and the 2010 SEL FWD we tested is price.
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I wonder if there is an implication for less extreme objects as well jets from T Tauri objects, e.g.
Supermassive Black Holes Spinning Backwards Create Death Ray Jets? | Universe Today 2010
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It is likely that the FUor phenomenon is recurrent, but it is not at all clear whether it is a property shared by ordinary T Tauri stars, or whether it is confined to a special minority among them.
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I am pondering whether these fluctuations of stars in a T-Tauri stage have some power spectrum based on the star's mass.
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To the south of GGD 17, the T Tauri star Bretz 4 is probably associated with the GGD object.
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What we know so far about FU Orionis-type stars is they flare with abrupt mass transfer from an accretion disc onto a young, low mass T Tauri-type star.
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