variable stars

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• Variable

  ·noun A shifting wind, or one that varies in force. II. Variable ·noun That which is variable; that...

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• Stars

  The eleven stars (Gen. 37:9); the seven (Amos 5:8); wandering (Jude 1:13); seen in the east at the b...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• stars

  A Southern pronunciation of the word stairs, like bar for bear; also heard in New England. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• star, variable

  See variable stars. ...

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• blazing stars

  The popular name of comets. ...

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• clock-stars

  A name for the nautical stars, which, from their positions having been very exactly ascertained, are...

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• falling stars

  Meteors which have very much the appearance of real stars. They were falsely regarded as foreboders ...

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• greenwich stars

  Those used for lunar computations in the nautical ephemeris. ...

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• multiple stars

  When several stars appear in close proximity to each other, they are spoken of, collectively, as a m...

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• nautical stars

  About 72 of the brightest, which have been selected for determining the latitude or the longitude, b...

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• stars, fixed

  Those innumerable bodies bespangling the heavens from pole to pole, distinguishable from the planets...

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• temporary stars

  Those which have suddenly become visible, and after attaining considerable brightness, have as sudde...

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• magnitudes of stars

  The relative degrees of apparent size in which the fixed stars are arranged, and classed according t...

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• proper motion of the stars

  A movement which some stars are found to possess, independent of the apparent change of place due to...

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