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Definition: North Star |
North StarNoun1. The brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the little dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: North StarSynonyms: polar star (n), polestar (n). (additional references) |
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The North Star has been historically used by explorers to determine their latitude. At any point north of the Equator the angle to the North Star (its altitude) is the same as the latitude from which that angle was taken. For example, the angle to the North Star for a person at 30° lattitude will be about 30°.
Polaris is the current North Star, but has a visual magnitude of only 1.97. On the other hand, in 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star; and at magnitude 3.67 it is five times fainter than Polaris. The bright star Vega will be the North Star by 14,000 AD.
Currently, there is no South Star as useful as Polaris; the faint star σ Octantis is closest to the south celestial pole. However, the constellation Crux, the Southern Cross, points towards the south pole.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "North Star."
Crosswords: North Star |
| English words defined with "North Star": American star grass ♦ cynosure ♦ fixed stars ♦ Great Bear ♦ Hypoxis hirsuta ♦ Little Bear ♦ North Star State ♦ unicorn root, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "North Star": Wabung Annung. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | The North Star (1943) North Star (1925) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Steam yacht North Star.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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1. North Star, OH (village, FIPS 57064) |
Expressions using "North Star": Fairbanks North Star ♦ North Star State ♦ the north star. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
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| Language | Translations for "North Star"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | полярна звезда (loadstar, lodestar, polar star, pole star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | πολικόσ αστέρι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 北極星 (Polaris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほっきょくせい (Polaris). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | Rollage ny Twoaie (Polaris, Pole Star). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orthnay arstay steaua polarã (load star, lodestar, pole star, the north star). (various references) полярная звезда (cynosure, loadstar, lodestar, polaris, pole star, polestar). (various references) severnjača (loadstar, lodestar). (various references) kutupyıldızı (cynosure, guiding star, loadstar, lodestar, pole star, polestar). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-h-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
-2 letters: attorns, rattons, throats. | |
-3 letters: attorn, norths, ottars, ratton, rostra, sartor, shoran, stator, strath, tarots, thorns, throat, torahs, tronas, troths. | |
-4 letters: arson, hants, harts, hoars, horas, horns, horst, hosta, north, oaths, ottar, rants, ratos, roans, roars, roast, rotas, santo, sharn, shoat, shorn, short, shott, snath, snort, sonar, start, stoat, tahrs, tanto, tarns, taros, tarot. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-h-n-o-r-r-s-t-t" | |
+1 letter: thyratrons. | |
+2 letters: northeaster, trochanters. | |
+3 letters: northeastern, northeasters, orthopterans, tetrahedrons. | |
+4 letters: northeasterly, northeastward, northwestward, orchestrating, orchestration, transthoracic, trichopterans. | |
+5 letters: authoritarians, counterthreats, northeastwards, northwestwards, orchestrations, prothonotaries, protohistorian, trisoctahedron, ultramarathons. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 6F 72 74 68 53 74 61 72 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01101111 01110010 01110100 01101000 00100000 01010011 01110100 01100001 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N o r t h   S t a r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 006F 0072 0074 0068 0053 0074 0061 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4881848674253866784 |
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