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capella
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Capella \Ca*pel"la\, n. [L., a little goat, dim. of caper a goat.] (Asrton.) A brilliant star in the constellation Auriga.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bright northern star, the alpha of the constellation Auriga, by 17c., from Latin capella, literally "little she-goat" (Greek kinesai kheimonas), diminutive of capra "she-goat," fem. of caper "goat."
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Capella, meaning "small she goat" in classical Latin, and chapel in medieval Latin, may refer to:
Capella is a lunar crater in diameter that lies to the north of the Mare Nectaris, in a rugged region with many small impact craters. It intrudes slightly into the eastern rim of the crater Isidorus, a feature only slightly smaller in diameter.
The wall of Capella is low but relatively thick and irregular, with a large promontory intruding on the south-eastern side. The crater is crossed by a deep rift, the Vallis Capella, which passes directly through Capella from the north rim through the southeast side of the wall, and extends out both sides for a combined distance of 110 kilometers. This feature was formed by a chain of craters. In the middle of the crater is a wide, round peak with a craterlet at the top. The western side of the crater is dotted with impact debris, forming clusters of small hills.
The crater was named for Marcianus Capella, a writer of Late Antiquity.
Capella, also designated Alpha Aurigae (α Aurigae, abbreviated Alpha Aur, α Aur), is the brightest star in the constellation of Auriga; the sixth brightest in the night sky and the third brightest in the northern celestial hemisphere, after Arcturus and Vega.
Although it appears to be a single star to the naked eye, it is actually a star system of four stars in two binary pairs. The first pair consists of two bright, type-G giant stars, designated Capella Aa and Capella Ab, in a very tight circular orbit some 0.76 AU apart and a derived orbital period of 104 days. Capella Aa is the brighter of the two at spectral class G8III (G8 Giant) whereas Ab is slightly smaller and of spectral class G0III (G0 Giant). Aa has a calculated mass of 3.05 times that of the Sun and Ab some 2.57 times that of the Sun. These two stars have both exhausted their core hydrogen fuel and become giant stars, though it is unclear exactly what stage they are on the stellar evolutionary pathway.
The second pair, around 10,000 astronomical units from the first, consists of two faint, small and relatively cool red dwarfs. They are designated Capella H and Capella L. The stars labelled Capella C through to G and I through to K are actually unrelated stars in the same visual field. The Capella system is relatively close, at only from the Sun.
capella is a musical notation program or scorewriter developed by the German company Capella Software AG (formerly WHC), running on Microsoft Windows or corresponding emulators in other operating systems, like Wine on Linux and others on Apple Macintosh. Capella requires to be activated after a trial period of 30 days. The publisher writes the name in lower case letters only. The program was initially created by Hartmut Ring, and is now maintained and developed by Bernd Jungmann.
Capella is one of the earliest computer programs for music notation and has a relatively moderate price compared with Finale or Sibelius, though unlike those programs, it presently runs only on Windows. Capella claims to have 300,000 users for the music notation program and 120,000 for the OCR program. Digital sheet music in capella formats is available in various online music libraries, especially in German speaking areas. The German Protestant hymnal has been digitized using capella software.
Originally available only in German, capella is now available in English (US and British), Dutch, Finnish, Polish (version 5.3) and Czech (capella 2008).
Capella is an Open Source solution hosted at polarsys.org. The solution provides a process and tooling for graphical modeling of systems, hardware or software architectures, in accordance with the principles and recommendations defined by the Arcadia method. Capella is an initiative of PolarSys, one of several Eclipse Foundation working groups.
Usage examples of "capella".
Arcturus was eighteen and Capella twelve that Henry carried out a holiday plan which had been in his mind for some time.
I was thinking of the Rollright Stones in Oxfordshire for Capella, and the Hurlers on Bodmin Moor for Vega.
I might consider Rome for her and Capella if we could fix up a package tour.
For you I will see Long Compton in your name, and King of England you shall be in the great hereafter, and thereto I, Capella, pledge thee my troth and the Whispering Traitors shall look upon death.
Her father had told her that the legends had been created by people who had no idea of the origin or purpose of the stone circle, but to Capella the legends were the facts.
It was for her, Capella, whose star was aligned on the Rollright Stones, to swear allegiance to the thwarted and frustrated king.
Clarissa giggled when Capella was introduced, and said that everybody thought of that lovely little light opera, but Lionel and Clarissa was how they had been christened and there was nothing they could do about it.
When she and Lionel had first met, she informed Capella, they had decided that this was Fate, so there was nothing to be done about that, either.
They stood menacing and dark against the early-morning sky, stark, grim guardians of a once-hallowed place, with LongMeg, the outlier, conspicuous because of her greater height and what Capella, thought of as her loneliness.
In return Capella learned that their convent was not far from Exeter, that the Order was that of St.
He joined Lionel, Clarissa and Capella at their table for four, and seemed in high spirits.
Sister Veronica, pausing and looking back at Capella, who was standing stock-still as the others followed Stewart.
I think perhaps there is a bigger fish than the young Capella in his pond.
Clarissa also appeared disinclined for conversation, and after lunch Lionel had Capella beside him with the nuns on the back seat.
The whole question was settled by Capella, who said that she had been looking forward to Arran and would make the crossing alone if everybody else was going to Kilmartin.