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altair
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bright star in the constellation Aquila, 16c., from Arabic Al Nasr al Tair "the Flying Eagle," from tair , participle of tara "it flew."
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Altair is a star in the Aquila constellation. Altair may also refer to:
Usage examples of altair.
But he was also a practical lad, and always his eye came back to brilliant Altair with its two distinctive guardians, and he realized that as long as he lived he would be able to look casually at the autumn sky and identify Altair.
Marine who had come to K-22 with his photo Banshee and he wanted desperately to see Altair come rising from the sea, his star, his omen to bless this night.
May 1952, when eagle-like Altair was flying toward the apex of the heavens, a radar watcher just south of the battle line detected a blip which had to be an airplane of some sort coming south toward the huge gasoline dump at Inchon.
It had been Altair since that October night in 1944 when he first saw that perfect star in his borrowed binoculars.
It was Altair when he followed that star over the night skies in Korea.
It had been Altair during indoctrination in the planetarium at Fremont State.
To acquaint them with the proper system, the star Altair, a member of our Galaxy, is 9.
But Altair III did indeed have intelligent life forms: it was perhaps unfortunate that first contact, light-years from here, had gone so badly, all those decades ago.
In which case, it would be Earth and Tau Ceti IV and Epsilon Indi II that would have been about to feel its effects, instead of Altair III.
I indulged in both pursuitsrather aggressively the night before we arrived at Altair VI to attend a presidential inauguration.
Every two years since the founding of the Federation, Starfleet has sent three ships to attend the inauguration at Altair VI.
He recognized it as one of the natives of the grim starvation world of Altair Four.
One resembled a sanitized and opulent version of one of the notorious drug dens of Altair III, another was a formal, candle-lit affair featuring crisp linen tablecloths, fine china and silver, and servants in powdered wigs and Revolutionary America costumes, while a third was simply a huge silk tent in which the customers sat or reclined on large cushions and ate off a long, very low table.
All he found was the narrow slice of Aquila that held Altair and the two companion stars that made the pointing shaft.
The woman, dressed in a glittering metallic blue gown, had long blonde hair piled high on her head, and wore a necklace of gleaming bloodstones from the mines of Altair III.