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asterism
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????????? (asterismós, “group of stars”), from ????? (ast?r, “star”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?ast???z?m/
Noun
asterism (plural asterisms)
- (astronomy) An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
- The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion's Belt are asterisms.
- 1825, Geo G. Carey, Astronomy, as it is known at the present day, London, p. 66 f.:
- Of the constellations, or asterisms. [...] It therefore became necessary to adopt a more general method of distinguishing them. This was accomplished by portioning out the heavens into imaginary figures, of men, birds, fishes, &c. called Constellations or Asterisms.
- A rarely used typographical symbol (?, three asterisks arranged in a triangle), used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book.
- (mineralogy) A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).
Related terms
- aster
- asterisk
- asteroid
Translations
See also
- syzygy
Anagrams
- Reitsmas, Ritsemas, St. Maries, maisters, maistres, misrates, semistar, smarties
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cond
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -?nd
Etymology 1
Clipping.
Adjective
cond (not comparable)
- Clipping of conditional.
Etymology 2
From Middle English conduen, condien, French conduire (“to conduct”), from Latin conducere.
Verb
cond (third-person singular simple present conds, present participle conding, simple past and past participle conded)
- Obsolete spelling of con (“direct or steer a ship”)
- 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:
- Sometimes he who conds the ship will be speaking to him at helm at every little yaw; which the sea-faring men love not, as being a kind of disgrace to their steerage; then in mockage they will say, sure the channel is narrow he conds so thick […]
- 1922, Publications of the Navy Records Society:
Further reading
- cond in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
Anagrams
- no-CD
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