different between typographical vs asterism

English

From New Latin typographicus + -al.

typographical (not comparable)

From Ancient Greek ?????????? (asterismós, “group of stars”), from ????? (ast?r, “star”).

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).

Reitsmas, Ritsemas, St. Maries, maisters, maistres, misrates, semistar, smarties

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