1) Altar 2) Andromeda 3) Antlia 4) Apus 5) Aquarius 6) Aquila 7) Ara 8) Argo 9) Asterism 10) Auriga 11) Bootes 12) Boötes 13) Caelum 14) Capricornus 15) Carina 16) Cassiopeia 17) Celestial cartography 18) Centaurus 19) Cepheus 20) Cetus 21) Chamaeleon 22) Chunking 23) Circinus 24) Circumpolar constellation
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1) Big dipper 2) Botanical art 3) Composition by Charlie Parker 4) Configuration 5) Constellation 6) Design 7) French word used in English 8) Motor yacht 9) PATTERN 10) Plan 11) Statue in Portland, Oregon
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- an arrangement of parts or elements
- a configuration of stars as seen from the earth
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is a region on the celestial sphere surrounding a grouping of stars. The names of constellations are assigned by tradition and often have an associated folklore based in mythology, while the modern demarcation of their borders are established by the International Astronomical Union.
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• (n.) An assemblage of splendors or excellences. • (n.) A cluster or group of fixed stars, or dvision of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, the group is included. • (n.) Fortune; fate; destiny.Constellation: w...
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A group of stars that make a shape, often named after mythological characters, people, animals, and things.
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(from the article `Baltimore`) ...American Revolution, it was a bustling seaport and shipbuilding centre. Baltimore clippers plied the seas, and trade extended to the Caribbean. ...
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(from the article `airplane`) ...service on the longer routes, even across the Atlantic and the Pacific. Even more important was the introduction of a plane that for a decade ...
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in astronomy, any of certain groupings of stars that were imagined—at least by those who named them—to form conspicuous configurations of objects or ... [3 related articles]
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An area of the celestial sphere bounded by internationally decreed lines of Right Ascension and Declination. The whole celestial sphere is divided up into a total of 88 areas of varying size, each with its own name. The smallest is Crux (The Southern Cross) and the largest is Hydra (The Watersnake). The most common concept of a constellation is gen...
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In psychiatry, all the factors that determine a particular action. ... Origin: L.L. Constellatio, fr. Cum, together, + stella, star ... (05 Mar 2000) ...
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An arbitrary grouping of stars which form a pattern. The sky is divided into 88 constellations. These vary in size and shape from Hydra, the sea monster, which is the largest at 1,303 square degrees, to Crux, the cross, which is the smallest at 68 square degrees.
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Con`stel·la'tion noun [ French
constellation , Latin
constellatio .]
1. A cluster or group of fixed stars, or division of the heavens, designated in most cases by the name of some animal, or of some mythologial personage, within whose imaginary outline, as traced upon the heavens, ...
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Constellations are the groups into which astronomers have divided the fixed stars, and which have received names for the convenience of description and reference. It is plain that the union of several stars into a constellation, to which the name of some animal, person, or inanimate object is given, must be entirely arbitrary, since the several poi...
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A grouping of stars that make an imaginary picture in the sky.
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A distinctive pattern of stars used informally to organize a part of the sky. There are 88 official constellations, which technically define sections of the sky rather than collections of specific stars.
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A pattern in the night sky, eg the Plough (there are 88 constellations).
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groups of stars in that people have imagined to represent various objects or mythical beings
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groups of stars in that people have imagined to represent various objects or mythical beings
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A named grouping of fixed stars, e.g. Orion or the Big Dipper.
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noun a configuration of stars as seen from the earth
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A grouping of stars which have been given names by ancient astronomers because of the way they look.
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groups of stars in that people have imagined to represent various objects or mythical beings
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· any of various groups of stars to which definite names have been given, as Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Boötes, Cancer, Orion. · the section of the heavens occupied by such a group.
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a configuration of stars as seen from the earth
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