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Definition of comet

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Comet (n.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix..

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Oncometer :: Oncometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the variations in size of the internal organs of the body, as the kidney, spleen, etc..

Velocity :: Velocity (n.) Quickness of motion; swiftness; speed; celerity; rapidity; as, the velocity of wind; the velocity of a planet or comet in its orbit or course; the velocity of a cannon ball; the velocity of light..

Radius Vector :: Radius vector (n.) An ideal straight line joining the center of an attracting body with that of a body describing an orbit around it, as a line joining the sun and a planet or comet, or a planet and its satellite..

Star :: Star (n.) One of the innumerable luminous bodies seen in the heavens; any heavenly body other than the sun, moon, comets, and nebulae..

Period :: Period (n.) A portion of time as limited and determined by some recurring phenomenon, as by the completion of a revolution of one of the heavenly bodies; a division of time, as a series of years, months, or days, in which something is completed, and ready to recommence and go on in the same order; as, the period of the sun, or the earth, or a comet..

Nuclear :: Nuclear (a.) Of or pertaining to a nucleus; as, the nuclear spindle (see Illust. of Karyokinesis) or the nuclear fibrils of a cell; the nuclear part of a comet, etc..

Cometographer :: Cometographer (n.) One who describes or writes about comets.

Oncograph :: Oncograph (n.) An instrument for registering the changes observable with an oncometer.

Epoch :: Epoch (n.) The date at which a planet or comet has a longitude or position.

Perseid :: Perseid (n.) One of a group of shooting stars which appear yearly about the 10th of August, and cross the heavens in paths apparently radiating from the constellation Perseus. They are beleived to be fragments once connected with a comet visible in 1862..

Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..

Anthracometer :: Anthracometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the amount of carbonic acid in a mixture.

Cometarium :: Cometarium (n.) An instrument, intended to represent the revolution of a comet round the sun..

Stethoscope :: Stethometer (n.) An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer..

Thoracometer :: Thoracometer (n.) Same as Stethometer.

Coma :: Coma (n.) The envelope of a comet; a nebulous covering, which surrounds the nucleus or body of a comet..

Apomecometry :: Apomecometry (n.) The art of measuring the distance of objects afar off.

Perihelium :: Perihelium (n.) That point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun; -- opposed to aphelion.

Maranatha :: Maranatha (n.) Our Lord cometh; -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes. See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema..

Anthracometric :: Anthracometric (a.) Of or pertaining to an anthracometer.