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planetarium

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Planetarium is a light rail station in Downtown Salt Lake City , Utah , in the United States , served by the Blue Line of the Utah Transit Authority 's (UTA) TRAX system. The Blue Line has service from the Salt Lake Intermodal Hub in Downtown Salt Lake ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome an apparatus ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Planetarium \Plan`e*ta"ri*um\, n. [NL.: cf. F. plan['e]taire. See Planetary .] An orrery. See Orrery .

Usage examples of planetarium.

How could he assemble a decent planetarium show with half slides and half digital images?

Something about their dispersal from the viruslike module made him think of a planetarium star-field projector.

It had been Altair during indoctrination in the planetarium at Fremont State.

When you cross the bridge on foot, you notice how wide the Rhine is: from the Planetarium on the Düsseldorf side to Oberkassel: a good pound of cherries wide.

Ogni creatura intelligente brama­va forse, consciamente o inconsciamente, di raggiungere quei lontani punti nel cielo, di sottrarsi alla forza di gravità, alle strettoie della prigione planetaria, e librarsi nelle immense distese degli spazi astrali?

In the Batesville Regional School, a visiting astronomer from the Delmor Planetarium in Little Rock explained to an auditorium of third and fourth-graders how eclipses happen, why people used to be afraid of them, and why they should never look directly at the Sun.

In the planetarium foyer was a mockup of the spacecraft which could have achieved the mission, perhaps in the early 1990s, assembled from hauntingly familiar components: Energia heavy-lift boosters, a Mir-based habitat module, a Mars lander built around Proton booster rocket stages.

The passageway was still as dark as a bar of extra-dark chocolate sitting in a planetarium covered in a thick, black blanket, even with the tiny glow from the white-hot tips of the fire tongs, and the sensation of lowering themselves down the elevator shaft still felt like a descent into the hungry mouth of some terrible creature.

Tomiko was now a member of the University Astronomy Club, she had written a couple of scripts for the planetarium in Forest Park, and she was about to collect her master's from SLU.

Although the looming bulk of the planetarium limited the lines of sight from the staff entrance, water glistened on the pavement between the two buildings.

Hollus’s shuttle dropped silently from the sky, and landed not as it had the first time, out front of the planetarium, but rather behind the museum, along Philosopher’s Walk, a grassy U of T parkette that snaked from Varsity Stadium over toward Hart House.

La quantità per chilogrammo al secondo era insignificante, ma su scala planetaria bastava per sprigionare un calore notevole, che si mantenne per miliardi di anni, riducendosi solo leggermente.

Also, too, many planetaria are still devoted to picking out constellations rather than travelling to other worlds, and depicting the evolution of galaxies, stars and planets.

The holoscope had supposedly been installed in the auditorium because it was donated to the expedition by a Japanese firm for purposes of advertising the product to planetariums on Earth.

Science fiction writers went to Star Trek Conventions, planetariums, and toured NASA.