Sentence example with the word 'polestar'

polestar

artificial magnet, center of attraction, comet, electromagnetic lifting magnet, fixed stars, focus of attention, heavenly body, living sapphires, magnet, morning star, paramagnet, prime focus, sphere

Definition n. the brightest star in Ursa Minor

Last update: October 11, 2015


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The representation thus handed down (in the verses of Aratus) has been thought to tally best with the state of the sky about 2000 B.C.; 12 and the mention of a polestar, for which Eudoxus was rebuked by Hipparchus, seems, as W.   [Please select]

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The attributes of the Almighty having come to an end the reader began on those of Bahâdur Shâh, Father of Victory, Light of Religion, Polestar and Defender of the Faith---- "Faster, fool, faster," came the fat voice.   [Please select]

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At sea, septentrional, by night the polestar, located at the point of intersection of the right line from beta to alpha in Ursa Maior produced and divided externally at omega and the hypotenuse of the rightangled triangle formed by the line alpha omega so produced and the line alpha delta of Ursa Maior.   [Please select]

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