Crossword clues for cassiopeia
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cassiopeia \Cas`si*o*pe"ia\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ?.] (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere, situated between Cepheus and Perseus; -- so called in honor of the wife of Cepheus, a fabulous king of Ethiopia.
Cassiopeia's Chair, a group of six stars, in Cassiopeia, somewhat resembling a chair.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
northern constellation, in Greek mythology queen of Ethiopia and mother of Andromeda, from Latinized form of Greek Kassiepeia, Kassiopeia, of unknown etymology. Related: Cassiopeian.
Wikipedia
Cassiopeia may refer to:
The was a luxury overnight limited express train service in Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) from July 1999 until March 2016. It ran between Ueno Station in Tokyo and the city of Sapporo in the northern island of Hokkaido. The one-way journey took approximately 16½ hours.
Cassiopeia (Κασσιόπεια), also Cassiepeia (Κασσιέπεια), is the name of several figures in Greek mythology.
Cassiopeia is a fictional character in the original Battlestar Galactica which ran on ABC from 1978 to 1979. The role was portrayed by Laurette Spang.
Cassiopeia is a 1996 Brazilian CGI animated feature film produced and released by NDR Filmes in Brazil on April 1, 1996. The film is an adventure about the invasion of planet Ateneia by intruders trying to steal their energy. Cassiopeia is the first fully CGI film - Toy Story came out the previous year, but it used scanned molds to produce the characters. The controversy was launched when Disney knew that Cassiopeia was being produced in Brazil (it was 40 minutes ready at time), and then Disney invested $ 50 million to come out ahead, launching a strong marketing campaign, saying that Toy Story was the first fully computer-created movie. That was not true because Disney used clay models to create before the computer and Cassiopeia used CGI in all process.
The modern constellation Cassiopeia lies across two of the quadrants symbolized by the The Black Tortoise of the North (北方玄武, Běi Fāng Xuán Wǔ) and The White Tiger of the West (西方白虎, Xī Fāng Bái Hǔ), and Three Enclosures (三垣, Sān Yuán), that divide the sky in traditional Chinese uranography.
The name of the western constellation in modern Chinese is 仙后座 (xiān hòu zuò), meaning "the immortal queen constellation".
Usage examples of "cassiopeia".
I watched the new constellations wheel far over my head -- Perseus, Medusa, Andromeda, Cepheus, Cassiopeia -- and turned sour.
Too bad that Medusa herself -- and Andromeda, Cassiopeia, and a few others -- had had to go too, but one could not make souvlakia without killing lambs.
Now she stood, my wife, wild-eyed, to keen general grief: besides Cassiopeia and Danaus, all the Seripheans and sundry palace guards were slain-- including Galanthis, whom Cepheus had had the satisfaction to dispatch and posthumously geld.
A splendid example of a true star-swarm is furnished by Chi Persei, in that part of the Milky Way which runs between the constellations Perseus and Cassiopeia.
Kingdoms of Polaris, of Cygnus, of Perseus and of Cassiopeia, and of the Baronies of Hercules Cluster.
Calyxa was neither white, like most other nymphs of my acquaintance, cinnamon-dark like Ethiopish Cassiopeia, nor high-chrysal like my handsome widow of panels Six-C through -E and Seven, but sun-browned as a young gymnasiast through her gauzy briefs -- which showed her too to be lean-hipped and -breasted like an adolescent Artemist, as against Andromeda's full-ripe femalehood, say, or the cushy amplitude of -- there, my memory, with my manhood, stirred, giving the lie to elsewise-marvelous Six-A.
Ammon I could be purely jealous of, despite my old grievance concerning his advice to Cassiopeia, for the images I'd seen of him in Joppa showed a fine-fettled fellow with handsome ram's-horns coiling from his swarthy curls.
For Cepheus, in fact contrite, ordered the palace guard to kill my ambushers, except Cassiopeia and Andromeda.
For a moment all were caught in the commands and countermands: Cassiopeia called on the guards to follow Galanthis in killing the lot of us, Andromeda and Cepheus included.
What we see each night in the constellation of Cassiopeia is not only a new star, but a new kind of star.
He would watch and watch, and his brother's season of intelligence would not be wasted, nor the sages of Cassiopeia forgotten.
He tried to explain to his Gaijin companion, Cassiopeia, what it was that kept him staring down at this new world, long after he had exhausted the analytic possibilities of his eyeball scrutiny.
But the end result was that he simply could not communicate to Cassiopeia why it pleased him to pick out an analog of Florida off the shore of some unnamed continent, on a planet light-years from Earth.
Was Cassiopeia equivalent to a car, a bacterium, a person, something more?
Both he and Cassiopeia were finite, discrete creatures embedded in a wider universe.