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Galactic

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

adj. Of or relating to a galaxy, especially the Milky Way.

adj. Of enormous size; immense.

adj. Of, relating to, or causing the secretion of milk.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

adj. Of or pertaining to milk, or the secretion of milk.

adj. Relating to a galaxy.

adj. Enormous (in size or impact).

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

adj. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk.

adj. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Of or pertaining to milk; obtained from milk; lactic.

In astronomy, pertaining to the Galaxy or Milky Way.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

adj. inconceivably large

adj. of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way)

Word Usage

"This method of using the chemical composition, age and mass of stars to unravel the history of the galaxy is sometimes called galactic archaeology and instruments like the E-ELT would lead the way in such research."

Equivalent

big large

Cross Reference

galactic poles galactic circle

Form

active galactic nucleus galactic halo galactic core galactic nucleus galactic arm

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

anticlimactic chiropractic climactic didactic extragalactic

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

planetary stellar interstellar maritime continental