Crossword clues for galaxies
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galaxy \Gal"ax*y\, n.; pl. Galaxies. [F. galaxie, L. galaxias, fr. Gr. ? (sc. ? circle), fr. ?, ?, milk; akin to L. lac. Cf. Lacteal.]
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(Astron.)
1. The Milky Way, that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so distant and blended as to be distinguishable only with the telescope.
--Nichol. A very large collection of stars comparable in size to the Milky Way system, held together by gravitational force and separated from other such star systems by large distances of mostly empty space. Galaxies vary widely in shape and size, the most common nearby galaxies being over 70,000 light years in diameter and separated from each other by even larger distances. The number of stars in one galaxy varies, and may extend into the hundreds of billions.
A splendid or impressive assemblage of persons or things; as, a galaxy of movie stars.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of galaxy English)
Wikipedia
"Galaxies" is a song by American electronica act Owl City, released on April 19, 2011. It is the second single from his fourth album, All Things Bright and Beautiful.
Adam Young has stated the song is about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
Usage examples of "galaxies".
From across the linked galaxies, they converge at white dwarf stars in order to achieve .
But right now, with all five galaxies in a state of uproar and navigation lanes falling apart, they seemed likely to fall between the cracks of bureaucracy, at Kazzkark Base.
Until the Civilization of the Five Galaxies finally stumbled on the commonwealth of outcasts.
Baskin makes it likely that no report will ever reach the Five Galaxies about your Six Races.
There are cheap alternatives in industrialized regions of the Five Galaxies, but here in Galaxy Four, industry' is currently minimal or nil, due to the recent fallow-migration-"The Niss paused briefly.
The great clans of the Civilization of Five Galaxies thought it a quaint oddity at best.
This ship carried treasure-relics of great consequence that might destabilize the Five Galaxies, especially if they were seized by a single fanatic clan.
Other galaxies seem burned out/ as if a recent conflagration tore through them/ destroying nearly every planetary system at the same time.
Other galaxies are Just like ours/ teeming with multitudinous sapient species/ talcing turns uplirting each other as a sacred duty/ then turning their attention toward the duties ot transcendence .
The Jophur were oxygen beings like myself, distant relatives, sharing some of the same DNA that had spread around the galaxies during a predawn era before Progenitors arose to begin the chain of Uplift.
Jijo might be a backwater, lacking the intellectual resources of the Five Galaxies, but you could still train a working mind from the pages of paper books.
What human could guess the wishes, interests, and obsessions that became important to species who long ago had seen everything there was to see in the Five Galaxies, and had done everything there was to do?
Even while Gillian parried increasing threats and imprecations from various factions of the Retired Order, Tsh't found it fairly simple to dispatch a secret message packet, programmed to go bouncing across the Five Galaxies, paranoically covering its own tracks and randomly rerouting before heading for its final destination-a time-drop capsule whose coordinates she had memorized as a youth, long ago.
Sharing the Five Galaxies with oxy-types, but completely separate from our civilization, sticking to their own worlds and interests as we keep to ours.
Even we sooners know one of the basic truisms of life in the Five Galaxies If something isn't in the Library, it is almost certainly impossible.