Crossword clues for polestar
polestar
The Collaborative International Dictionary
North \North\, a. Lying toward the north; situated at the north, or in a northern direction from the point of observation or reckoning; proceeding toward the north, or coming from the north.
North following. See Following, a., 2.
North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north.
North preceding. See Following, a., 2.
North star, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in the sky. The star [alpha] (alpha) of the Little Bear, is our present north star, being distant from the pole about 1[deg] 25', and from year to year approaching slowly nearer to it. It is called also Cynosura, polestar, and by astronomers, Polaris.
Wiktionary
n. (alternative form of pole star English)
WordNet
n. the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the little dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it [syn: Polaris, North Star, pole star, polar star]
Wikipedia
A pole star is a visible star that is approximately aligned with the Earth's axis of rotation.
Pole star, polestar or polar star may also refer to:
- Philip Segal, an executive producer with his own company, Polestar
- Polestar (comics), a Spider-Man villain
- Polestar (monument), a monument in Letterkenny
- Polar Star (novel), a 1989 novel by Martin Cruz Smith, featuring Arkady Renko
- NLV Pole Star, a lighthouse tender vessel operated by the United Kingdom's Northern Lighthouse Board
- USCGC Polar Star (WAGB-10), an icebreaker operated by the United States Coast Guard
- Polestar Racing Group, an American motorsport team currently competing in the Atlantic Championship
- Polestar Racing, a Swedish motorsport team currently competing in the STCC and V8 SuperCars Championship
- Cosmic Boy, a DC Comics Superhero of the Legion of Super-Heroes who was briefly known as Polestar
- "Polar Star" (song), by South Korean band F.T. Island
- Polestar, developed the Japan-exclusive game Magical Pop'n
- Polestar Preschool, an area in the SNES RPG EarthBound
- Polestar XEUS, a solution from the South Korean software vendor NKIA for monitoring cloud systems
- Polar (cataclysmic variable star), a type of star
Polestar is the name used by a pair of mercenaries and antagonists of Spider-Man, closely associated with the Great Game. The first is currently deceased.
Polestar is the official Volvo Cars performance division, based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Until 2015, Polestar Performance was a division of Polestar along with the Polestar racing team. and prototypes. Volvo announced in July 2015 that it had purchased Polestar Performance. The racing team will remain under the direction of Christian Dahl, changing name from Polestar Racing to Cyan Racing. A close cooperation with Polestar is maintained with Cyan Racing becoming official motorsport partner to Polestar, the Volvo Cars performance brand.
Usage examples of "polestar".
Although we are for a small town remarkably free of resentment, the absence of a polestar metropolis leaves us feeling in our private moments a little lonely.
She checked the autumn constellations, found the polestar, got her directions exactly right.
Unfolding the alignment arms, she took angle sightings on the horizon, on Ophir, the polestar, and the planet Amaterasu.
Henry of Navarre, was murdered in Venice, while Navarre himself, the polestar of all of these hopes, was assassinated in Paris.
Tou-Mou The Chinese goddess of the polestar was the judge of all peoples, keeping records of their lives and deaths.
I did not see Polestar step into the pool or Baglos slip from his saddle into the water.
It was the middle of the thirty-third century, and Polaris traced a larger circle in the north sky than it did in the time of Leibowitz, but the hordes called themselves the people of the Polestar when they wandered.
Even fewer knew the secrets of the polestar, and the aid to navigation that star could be.
Alpha Draconis was the polestar, and that some 12,000 years from now Vega will occupy that position?
Bernie had been one of her first cases, the polestar that kept her working with disturbed kids through failure after failure.