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cometary 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. of or relating to or resembling a comet
  2. (comet) (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
  3. A comet is an icy small Solar System body that, when close enough to the Sun, displays a visible coma (a thin, fuzzy, temporary atmosphere) and sometimes also a tail. These phenomena are both due to the effects of solar radiation and the solar wind upon the nucleus of the comet. ...
  4. (Comet (book)) Comet (1985) is a popular-science book by Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan. It describes the scientific nature of comets, as well as their varying roles and perceptions throughout history. ...
  5. (Comet (cleanser)) Comet is a powdered cleaning product sold in North America and distributed in the United States by Prestige Brands. Scratch Free Comet with Bleach Disinfectant Cleanser contains 1.2% sodium dichloro-s-triazinetrione dihydrate (a derivative of cyanuric acid) and 98. ...
  6. (COMET (EU project)) COMET is an international project in the field of vocational education and training funded by the European Union. ...
  7. (Comet (Full House)) Full House is an American television sitcom that originally ran in primetime from September 22, 1987, to May 23, 1995, on ABC. ...
  8. (Comet (goldfish)) The comet or comet-tailed goldfish is the most common variety of fancy goldfish in the United States. It is similar to the common goldfish, except slightly smaller and slimmer, and is mainly distinguished by its long deeply forked tail. ...
  9. (comet) A celestial body consisting mainly of ice, dust and gas in an (usually very eccentric) orbit around the Sun and having a "tail" of matter blown back from it by the solar wind as it approaches the Sun; A celestial phenomenon with the appearance given by the orbiting celestial body
  10. (Comet) A star or other projectile which leaves a glittering, persistent trail behind it.
  11. (Comet) basically a large star that emits thick showers of bright sparks on the way up
  12. (comet) From the Latin cometa, literally hair of the head,tail of a comet. A bright star-like heavenly body, composed of masses of tiny particles and gases, which follows an eccentric orbit of the Sun that for some comets can take thousands of years to complete. ...
  13. (Comet) A frozen mass of dust and gas that moves through the solar system in an orbit.
  14. (comet) An icy, “dirty snowball” that orbits the Sun.  A majority of comets orbit well beyond Pluto in a halo surrounding the solar system.  Comet size ranges from a few meters to a few kilometers in diameter. ...
  15. (Comet) a body in space that has a tail and follows an orbit around the sun.
  16. (Comet) A gigantic ball of ice and rock that orbit the Sun in a highly eccentric orbit. Some comets have an orbit that brings them close to the Sun where they form a long tail of gas and dust as they are heated by the Sun's rays.
  17. (Comet) Comets are small icy objects which orbit the Sun. The tails of comets are made by the Sun's heat forcing some of the ice and gas off the surface. These tails can be up to 250 million km long, and always point away from the Sun.
  18. ((S142) COMET) New York: V. 1-2 no. 26; April 19, 1832 - July 28, 1833 Octavo. ULS: 12. All Published. A scarce religious weekly, edited by H. M. Duhecquet, a pseudonym of H. D. Robinson, the brother-in-law of Robert Owen who concurrently edited Free Enquirer. ...
  19. (CoMET) and NOVA are railway benchmarking programs through which members share information for comparisons and analysis. The Railway Technology Strategy Centre (RTSC), at Imperial College London, acts as the administrator, facilitates the process and provides the research resources. ...
  20. (Comet (Astronomy)) The Great Bear was shot with Celestial Tranquilizer to comet down.
  21. (Comet) A body consisting of ice and rock (think of it as a dirty snowball) that orbits a star, usually in highly elongated orbits.
  22. (Comet) A celestial body orbiting the sun (though some may be ejected from the solar system by planetary perturbations) that displays (at least during a portion of its orbit) some diffuseness and/or a "tail" of debris that points generally in the anti-solar direction. ...
  23. (Comet) A celestial body, observed only in that part of its orbit that is relatively close to the sun, having a head consisting of a solid nucleus surrounded by a nebulous coma up to 2.4 million kilometers (1. ...
  24. (Comet) A diffuse body of solid particles and gas, which orbits the Sun. The orbit is usually highly elliptical or even parabolic. Comets are unstable bodies with masses of the order of 10^18 g whose average lifetime is about 100 perihelion passages. ...
  25. (Comet) A large cylindrical pumped star that leaves a sparked tail.