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Star in Orion
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betelgeuse
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Betelgeuse , also known by its Bayer designation Alpha Orionis (shortened to α Orionis or α Ori ), is the ninth-brightest star in the night sky and second-brightest in the constellation of Orion . Distinctly reddish, it is a semiregular variable star whose ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Betelguese \Bet"el*guese\ (b[e^]t"[e^]l*j[=e]z), n. [F. B['e]telgeuse, of Arabic origin.] (Astron.) A bright star of the first magnitude, near one shoulder of Orion. [Written also Betelgeux and Betelgeuse .]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bright star in the shoulder of Orion, 1515, from Arabic Ibt al Jauzah "the Armpit of the Central One." Intermediary forms include Bed Elgueze , Beit Algueze .
Usage examples of betelgeuse.
Meyers lives in San Francisco, red hair, high cheekbones, thirty-one years old, single, you met her in January oh-two, worked with you on the Betelgeuse Five deal.
Christian Scientists, psycho-analysts, electronic vibration diviners, therapeutists of all schools registered and unregistered, astrologers, astronomers who tell us that the sun is nearly a hundred million miles away and the Betelgeuse is ten times as big as the whole universe, physicists who balance Betelgeuse by describing the incredible smallness of the atom, and a host of other marvel mongers whose credulity would have dissolved the Middle Ages in a roar of sceptical merriment.
I assigned to the Mechandroid Belem a problem involving the opening of the Betelgeuse system.
She knows them all: Cassiopeia's chair, Betelgeuse, Aldeberon, the teapot, the swan.
Ha perciò una grandezza apparente inferiore a quella di Betelgeuse al suo massimo.
He got David of Betelgeuse to release his T-1 son, Perry, to take charge of Clarf Tower, borrowing Yoshuk from the Sef Tower until Perry became comfortable with the peculiarities of the planet.
Over the next fifteen years, devious politicking, strikes, ultimatums and power plays by nervous administrators on the other Systems - Altair, Capella, Betelgeuse and Procyon - were frequent: each Star determined to have equal safeguards against alien incursions.
The red giants, of the types of Aldebran and Arcturus, and their supergiant counterparts, like Betelgeuse and Antares .
She'd temped in that position on Betelgeuse and Prime David recommended her.