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1. (n.) comet
a celestial body (with) a central solid mass and a tail of dust and gas and that orbits the sun along a highly eccentric course.
Etymology: (1150–1200; ME comete < AF, OF < L comētēs,comēta < Gk komētēs wearing long hair)
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) comet
(astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
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1. (noun) comet
an object in space with a bright tail of dust
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1. (noun) COMET
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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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. COMET
a member of the solar system under control of the sun, consisting of a bright nucleus within a nebulous envelope, generally extended into a tail on the rear of its orbit, which is extremely eccentric, pursuing its course with a velocity which increases as it approaches the sun, and which diminishes as it withdraws from it; these bodies are very numerous, have their respective periods of revolution, which have been in many cases determined by observation.
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Sense: a type of heavenly body which leaves a trail of light behind it as it moves.
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 Afrikaans: komeet |
 Arabic: نَجْمٌ مُذنَّب |
 Bulgarian: комета |
 Brazilian: cometa |
 Czech: kometa |
 German: der Komet |
 Danish: komet |
 Greek: κομήτης |
 Spanish: cometa |
 Estonian: komeet |
 Farsi: شهاب سنگ |
 Finnish: komeetta |
 French: comète |
 Hebrew: כּוֹכַב שָׁבִיט |
 Hindi: धूम्रकेतु |
 Croatian: komet, repatica |
 Hungarian: üstökös |
 Indonesian: komet |
 Icelandic: halastjarna |
 Italian: cometa |
 Japanese: 彗星 |
 Korean: 혜성 |
 Lithuanian: kometa |
 Latvian: komēta |
 Malay: komet |
 Dutch: komeet |
 Norwegian: komet |
 Polish: kometa |
 Persian: شهاب سنگ |
 Pashto: لكۍ لرونكى ستورى غوندى خل |
 Portuguese: cometa |
 Romanian: cometă |
 Russian: комета |
 Slovak: kométa |
 Slovenian: repatica |
 Serbian: kometa |
 Swedish: komet |
 Thai: ดาวหาง |
 Turkish: kuyruklu yıldız |
 Taiwanese: 慧星 |
 Ukrainian: комета |
 Urdu: شہابِ ثاقب |
 Vietnamese: sao chổi |
 Chinese: 慧星 |
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