1) Building 2) Edifice 3) French word used in English
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An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Astronomy, climatology/meteorology, geology, oceanography and volcanology are examples of disciplines for which observatories have been constructed. Historically, observatories were as simple as containing an astronomical sextant (for measuring the distance between st...
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[horse] Observatory is a thoroughbred race horse. He won the Queen Elizabeth II Stakes at Ascot, and the Prix d`Ispahan in France. ...
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• (n.) A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. • (n.) A lookout on a flank of a battery whence an officer can note the range and effect of the fire. • (n.) A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations of any particular class or series of natural phenomena. • (n.) A place, as a...
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Place where the stars and planets of the solar system can be observed. Examples include that at Westerton, County Durham and Sharpe's Folly, Whitton, Northumberland of the 18th century AD.
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Ob·serv'a·to·ry noun ;
plural Observatories . [ Confer French
observatoire .]
1. A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. « The new
observatory in Greenwich Park.»
Evelyn. 2. A building fitted with instrum...
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A place where people look into space.
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[
n] - a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena
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a place where scientists study volcanoes
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noun a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena
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Site or facility for observing astronomical or meteorological phenomena. The modern observatory dates from the invention of the telescope. Observatories may be ground-based, carried on aircraft, or sent into orbit as satellites, in space stations, and on the space shuttle. The pre-telescopic observatory built on the island of Hven (now Ven)...
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Traditionally thought to have been located briefly in the north-east Tower of the White Tower where John Flamsteed took astronomical observations in 1675
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