Usually means: Rotating, star-filled, disk-shaped galaxy.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. spiral galaxy: Merriam-Webster
  2. spiral galaxy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. spiral galaxy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spiral galaxy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. spiral galaxy: Vocabulary.com
  6. spiral galaxy: Wiktionary
  7. spiral galaxy: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. spiral galaxy: Dictionary.com
  9. Spiral Galaxy (sculpture), Spiral Galaxy, Spiral galaxy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. spiral galaxy: Rhymezone
  11. spiral galaxy: FreeDictionary.org
  12. spiral galaxy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  13. spiral galaxy: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. spiral galaxy: Encyclopedia

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spiral Galaxy: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Spiral Galaxy: Extragalactic Astronomy
  3. SPIRAL GALAXY: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. JPL Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (spiral galaxy)

noun:  (astronomy) A galaxy consisting of a number of arms of younger stars that spiral out from the center containing older ones.

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