Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The precise measurement of the positions and motions of celestial bodies.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of determining by measurement the apparent relative magnitude of the stars.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The art of making measurements among the stars, or of determining their relative magnitudes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun astronomy the branch of
astronomy that deals with themeasurement of thepositions andmotions ofcelestial bodies, particularlystars .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the branch of astronomy that deals with the measurement of the position and motion of celestial bodies
Etymologies
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Examples
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That research team used a different analysis method known as astrometry.
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The researchers found the planet using a method called astrometry, which precisely tracks the position of stars over time.
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The researchers found the planet using a method called astrometry, which precisely tracks the position of stars over time.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the technique, called astrometry, involves measuring the motions of a star as an unseen planet tugs the star back and forth.
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One of the biggest requirements arguments was over an exact and usually uninteresting subfield of astronomy called astrometry, the study of how to measure precisely a star’s position in the sky.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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One of the biggest requirements arguments was over an exact and usually uninteresting subfield of astronomy called astrometry, the study of how to measure precisely a star’s position in the sky.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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One of the biggest requirements arguments was over an exact and usually uninteresting subfield of astronomy called astrometry, the study of how to measure precisely a star’s position in the sky.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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One of the biggest requirements arguments was over an exact and usually uninteresting subfield of astronomy called astrometry, the study of how to measure precisely a star’s position in the sky.
A Grand and Bold Thing Ann Finkbeiner 2010
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The first player organizes his hand by type, for example he may have 3 "astrometry" cards, 2 "pulsar timing" cards, and 2 "direct imaging" cards.
thing-a-day 2010 2010
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The first player organizes his hand by type, for example he may have 3 "astrometry" cards, 2 "pulsar timing" cards, and 2 "direct imaging" cards.
thing-a-day 2010 2010
vanishedone commented on the word astrometry
B.B.C. News: 'The discovery of a Jupiter-like "exoplanet" orbiting the star VB 10 is the first to be made using the astrometry method. Astrometry is based on measuring small changes in a star's position.'
June 1, 2009