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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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Perigeum :: Perigeum (n.) That point in the orbit of the moon which is nearest to the earth; -- opposed to apogee. It is sometimes, but rarely, used of the nearest points of other orbits, as of a comet, a planet, etc. Called also epigee, epigeum..

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..

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..

Apomecometer :: Apomecometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the height of objects.

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

Comet- Seeker :: Comet- seeker (n.) A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used for finding comets..

Cometary :: Cometary (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, 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..

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

Track :: Track (n.) Course; way; as, the track of a comet..

Envelop :: Envelop (n.) The nebulous covering of the head or nucleus of a comet; -- called also coma.

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

Comet-finder :: Comet-finder (n.) Alt. of Comet- seeke.

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

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

Glaucometer :: Glaucometer (n.) See Gleucometer.

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

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..

Aphelion :: Aphelion (n.) That point of a planet's or comet's orbit which is most distant from the sun, the opposite point being the perihelion..