Usually means: Imaginary sphere enclosing Earth, stars.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word celestial sphere:

General (14 matching dictionaries)
  1. celestial sphere: Merriam-Webster
  2. celestial sphere: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. celestial sphere: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. celestial sphere: Collins English Dictionary
  5. celestial sphere: Vocabulary.com
  6. Celestial Sphere, celestial sphere: Wiktionary
  7. celestial sphere: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. celestial sphere: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. celestial sphere: Dictionary.com
  10. Celestial sphere: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. celestial sphere: Rhymezone
  12. celestial sphere: FreeDictionary.org
  13. celestial sphere: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. celestial sphere: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celestial sphere: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. celestial sphere: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Celestial Sphere: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  3. Celestial Sphere: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  2. JPL Terms (No longer online)
  3. SOLAR-TERRESTRIAL TERMS (No longer online)

(Note: See celestial_spheres as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Celestial Sphere)

noun:  (astronomy) The apparent outer limit of space; an abstract sphere of infinite radius which serves as the imaginary backdrop for celestial objects, and of which the visible sky is one hemisphere.
noun:  One of the nested concentric transparent spheres around the Earth in which celestial bodies such as stars and planets were said to be embedded in ancient and medieval Western cosmology, and whose rotation was said to produce the motion of such bodies.
noun:  Alternative spelling of celestial sphere [(astronomy) The apparent outer limit of space; an abstract sphere of infinite radius which serves as the imaginary backdrop for celestial objects, and of which the visible sky is one hemisphere.]

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