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A structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
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observatory
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Wikipedia
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An observatory is a location used for observing terrestrial or celestial events. Observatory may also refer to: Observatory, Bristol , a building in Clifton, Bristol, England Observatory, Cape Town , suburb in Cape Town, South Africa Observatory, Gauteng ...
Wiktionary
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n. A place where stars, planets and other celestial body are observed, usually through a telescope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"building for observing astronomical phenomena," 1670s (in reference to Greenwich), from French observatoire , from observer (v.); see observe .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE astronomical ▪ Triangulations on distant hills were attempted, weather records kept, and there was an astronomical observatory . EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ the Griffith Observatory EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As you ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Observatory \Ob*serv"a*to*ry\, n.; pl. Observatories . [Cf. F. observatoire.] A place or building for making observations on the heavenly bodies. The new observatory in Greenwich Park. --Evelyn. A building fitted with instruments for making systematic observations ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a building designed and equipped to observe astronomical phenomena a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings [syn: lookout , observation tower , lookout station ]
Usage examples of observatory.
Sandi Thiaput at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, had made several measurements of the Martian albedo for another project the previous year and Sandi e-mailed the raw and post-processed data to him.
Killigrew, Director of the Killigrew Observatory, Dunedin, New Zealand.
The two friends slept bed to bed under an oleograph showing the Crane Gate, the observatory, and the Long Bridge in winter with ice floes.
Loewy and Puiseux, the selenographers of the Paris Observatory, are convinced that these great plains bear characteristic marks of the former presence of immense bodies of water.
Wilson and Palomar Observatories, found several technetium lines in the spectra of S-type stars.
Fortunately, a robotic observatory had been in orbit around Twinkler, and signs of the explosion had been detected early, in the form of a veritable avalanche of precursor neutrinos.
Our evolutionists are in very much the same plight with Mark Twain and his friend, who, having slept all day, rushed from the hotel in scanty clothing, climbed the observatory and to the amusement of the guests loudly admired what they took to be the famous Rigi sunrise, while in fact they were vociferating and gesticulating at the setting sun.
Cyan Gem, the middle sisters, had earned honors in science at Newmarch University and won research assistantships at the core-star observatory, studying the newly emergent planetics.
Though the barographs themselves gave no indication whence this wave had come, the variation in its intensity at different meteorological observatories could be accounted for by the law of inverse squares on the supposition that the explosion which started the wave had occurred at fifty-five degrees north, seventy-five degrees west.
The hill was taken, but was abandoned again by General Buller after he had used it for some hours as an observatory.
But the Martialists grudge no cost to render their scientific instruments, from the Observatory itself to the smallest lens or wheel it contains, as perfect as possible.
Rithrim to allow the observatory in order to obtain help in protecting their procreation center.
He went down first into the dank cellars of the Observatory of Paris, that famous Observatory where worked the great Le Verrier, who had done the proud feat of prophesying the existence of the planet Neptune.
The largest instruments of this type are the 36-inch Lick telescope and the 40-inch refractor of the Yerkes Observatory.
Cosmo asked on their first date at the Lowell Observatory on Mars Hill outside Flagstaff, where they took turns looking up at red Mars through the same refractor Percival Lowell had used to study the canals of the Red Planet a century ago.