| NOUN | object | comet | (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit |
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| Sounds | kaa'maht | |
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| Rhymes | abbot ... zealot / Zealot: 372 rhymes with aht... | |
| Meaning | (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit. | |
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| Category | astronomy, uranology | The branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole |
| Parts | coma | (astronomy) the luminous cloud of particles surrounding the frozen nucleus of a comet |
| nucleus | (astronomy) the center of the head of a comet | |
| Broader | extraterrestrial object, estraterrestrial body | A natural object existing outside the earth and outside the earth's atmosphere |
| Spanish | cometa | |
| Catalan | cometa | |
| Adjectives | cometary, cometic | of or relating to or resembling a comet |
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