COMET meaning: Icy body orbiting sun, tail

We found 43 dictionaries that define the word Comet:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

comet: Merriam-Webster
comet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
comet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
comet: Collins English Dictionary
comet: Vocabulary.com
Comet, comet: Wordnik
comet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Comet, comet: Wiktionary
comet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
comet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
comet: Infoplease Dictionary
COMET: Dictionary.com
comet: Online Etymology Dictionary
comet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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Comet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
comet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
comet: Rhymezone
Comet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
comet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
comet: FreeDictionary.org
comet: Mnemonic Dictionary
comet: TheFreeDictionary.com
comet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
comet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)

BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
comet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)

Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
COMET: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)

From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
Comet: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
Comet: Glossary on Meteor Astronomy
Comet: Extragalactic Astronomy
comet: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

comet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
The Comet: A Seattle Lexicon
Comet, The Comet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Comet)

▸ noun:  (astronomy) A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
▸ noun:  A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
▸ noun:  Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
▸ noun:  The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus.
▸ noun:  (programming) A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it.

Opposite:

asteroid

Types:

Halley's Comet, Shoemaker-Levy 9, C/2006 P1, 17P/Holmes, C/1995 O1, more...

Phrases:

Comet Halley, Comet assay, Comet Kohoutek, comet tail, periodic comet, more...

Adjectives:

great, new, same, bright, largest, periodic, small, famous, brilliant, blazing, second

Colors:

silver, gray, white, blue, black, more...

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