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Halos around the sun
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coronae
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n. (en-irregular plural of: corona )
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Corona \Co*ro"na\ (k?-r?"n?), n.; pl. L. Coron[ae] (-n?), E. Coronas (-n?z). [L. corona crown. See Crown .] A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services. (Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under ...
Usage examples of coronae.
The control yoke moved gently under her hands, and she realized abruptly that the stars had vanished, leaving only their brilliant coronae scattered across the sky.
All around, the dome was fading, the stars' coronae shining through its metallic shadow.
In the screens, the stars were beginning to show faint coronae, and she glanced instinctively toward the pitch indicators.
Even as she watched, it faded further, to the strange translucence of the twelfth of heaven, and the stars vanished completely, leaving only their coronae blazing against a flat black sky.
As one, their coronae sparkled upward a single, coruscating glyph of approval so vivid that even the Thennanin Ambassador seemed to blink and take notice.
The error rate must be tremendous, since you are without coronae to sense what the female is feeling.
The stars were fading as their coronae brightened: they had passed the first twelfth long ago.
However, the presence of coronae may signify—on timescales that are geologically in the near future—that massive changes on the surface of Venus are about to break out again.