1) Accumulation 2) Aggregation 3) Apple II game 4) Assemblage 5) Astronomical study 6) Avalon Hill game 7) Bonbon in Britain 8) Bonbon in Europe 9) Brand name confectionery 10) Brilliant array 11) Brilliant assemblage 12) British sweet treat 13) British sweet 14) British confection 15) British candy
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1) Beetleweed 2) Coltsfoot 3) Galax 4) Multitude 5) Nebula 6) Phone
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- a splendid assemblage (especially of famous people)
- tufted evergreen perennial herb having spikes of tiny white flowers and glossy green round to heart-shaped leaves that become coppery to maroon or purplish in fall
- (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust
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A gigantic cluster of stars and, some think, planets
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• (n.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope. The term has recently been used for remote clusters of stars. • (n.) A splendid assemblage of persons or things.Galax...
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any of the systems of stars and interstellar matter that make up the cosmos. Many such assemblages are so enormous that they contain hundreds of ... [20 related articles]
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A component of our universe made up of gas and a large number (usually more than a million) of stars held together by gravity.
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A system made up of stars, nebulae and interstellar matter. Many galaxies, but not all, are spiral in form.
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Gal'ax·y noun ;
plural Galaxies . [ French
galaxie , Latin
galaxias , from Greek ... (sc. ... circle), from ..., ..., milk; akin to Latin
lac . Confer
Lacteal .]
1. (Astron.) The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night ...
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a group of stars, gas and dust.
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An assemblage of millions to hundreds of billions of stars.
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A galaxy is a congregation of stars held together by gravity.
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A large grouping of stars. Galaxies are found in a variety of sizes and shapes. Our own Milky Way galaxy is spiral in shape and contains several billion stars. Some galaxies are so distant the their light takes millions of years to reach the Earth.
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A vast collection of stars, gas, and dust, typically 10,000 to 100,000 light-years in diameter and containing billions of stars (from galaxias kuklos, Greek for `circle of milk,` originally used to describe our own Milky Way).
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A Galaxy is a collection of millions of stars and debris in space.
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A grouping of about approximately 100 billion stars, held together by their own gravity. We live in the Milky Way galaxy, visible on any clear, moonless night away from Lerwick street-lights. Within a galaxy, there are many different types of star, some older, younger, brighter, dimmer, or more/less massive than the Sun. Galaxies do not all look th...
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a huge collection of stars, nebulae, star clusters, and dust and gas that measures many light years across. A galaxy's shape can be elliptical, spiral, or irregular
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a large system of stars
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a huge collection of space matter gathered together by gravity - includes stars, planets, moons, asteroids comets and other matter
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a huge collection of stars, nebulae, star clusters, and dust and gas that measures many light years across. A galaxy's shape can be elliptical, spiral, or irregular
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a collection of thousands to billions of stars held together by gravity
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A system of about 100 billion stars. Our Sun is a member of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is sometimes just designated by capitalization
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A very large cluster of stars in space, normally hundreds of millions of stars, but sometimes as many as hundreds of billions. Note that the stars in the night sky are all relatively nearby in our own galaxy, the Milky Way*.
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extragalactic nebula noun (astronomy) a collection of star systems; any of the billions of systems each having many stars and nebulae and dust; ``extragalactic nebula` is a former name for `galaxy``
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a huge collection of stars, nebulae, star clusters, and dust and gas that measures many light years across. A galaxy's shape can be elliptical, spiral, or irregular
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