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Definition: Astronomic |
AstronomicAdjective1. Relating or belonging to the science of astronomy; "astronomic telescope". 2. Inconceivably large. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "astronomic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1913. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Aerospace | = astronomical.In any combination, such as astronomic coordinates, astronomic is equivalent to astronomical. (references) |
Geological | Pertaining to the science of astronomy. Astronomy is the science of the heavenly bodies (fixed stars, planets, satellites, and comets) their nature, distribution, magnitudes, motions, distances, periods of revolution, eclipses, etc. (references) |
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Synonyms: AstronomicSynonyms: astronomical (adj), galactic (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Astronomic |
| Specialty definitions using "astronomic": geodetic datum ♦ NAD83. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Astronomic" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Romanian (astronomic, astronomical). |
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 | Meridian and equal altitude instrument for astronomic observations Fig. No. 28, Report of Superintendent ... 1867. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Ralph Pfau (l) Early morning computing of previous night's astronomic observations. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | Reminiscent of ancient astronomic observatories, the last rays of the setting sun suffuse the entrance tunnel with a golden glow. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. | ||
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| "Astronomic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Astronomic" is used about 9 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 9 | 117,287 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "astronomic": astronomic azimuth ♦ astronomic figures ♦ astronomic time ♦ astronomic unit. 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 |
astronomic clock time | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "astronomic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | astronomies (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | astronomik (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | فلكي (astronomical), هائل (astronomical, awful, colossal, enormous, formidable, gargantuan, gigantesque, hugely, immense, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, portentous, prodigious, rip roaring, stupendous, terrific, thumping, thundering, titanic, towering, tremendous, whopping, wicked, wide), ضخم (astronomical, awful, big, bulking, bulky, bull, colossal, colossus, considerable, distend, elephantine, enormous, exaggerate, extend, exuberant, fat, gargantuan, ghastly, giant, gigantic, goodly, grand, great, handsome, heavy, hefty, heroic, huge, hulking, husky, immense, intense, jumbo, large, leviathan, liberal, mammoth, mass, massive, mighty, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, outsize, oversize, palatial, phenomenal, powerful, prodigious, proud, round, royal, sizable, smart, strapping, strong, stupendous, sublime, swingeing, tall, tidy, titan, titanic, towering, tremendous, vast, voluminous, whacking, whopping). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | много голям (astronomical, exceeding, incredible, king size, mighty, whacking), астрономичен (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 天文学 (Astronomical, Astronomically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | astronomický (astronomical, exorbitant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | astronomisk trekant (astronomic triangle, astronomical triangle), astronomisk tid (astronomic time, astronomical time), astronomisk stedsbestemmelse (astronomic position determination, astronomical position determination), astronomisk refraktion (astronomic refraction, astronomical refraction), astronomisk observation (astronomic observation, astronomical observation), astronomisk nivellement (astronomic levelling, astronomical levelling), astronomisk længde (astronomic longitude, geographic longitude), astronomisk geodæsi (astronomic geodesy, astronomical geodesy), astronomisk bredde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), astronomisk azimut (astronomic azimuth), astronomisk aberration (astronomic aberration, astronomical aberration), polhøjde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude, latitude), geografisk længde (astronomic longitude, geographic longitude), geografisk bredde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), geodætisk bredde (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | astronomisch (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | astronomia (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | astronominen vaaitus (astronomic levelling, astronomical levelling), astronominen refraktio (astronomic refraction, astronomical refraction), astronominen leveys (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), astronominen aberraatio (astronomic aberration, astronomical aberration), tähtitieteellinen suuntakulma (astronomic azimuth), tähtitieteellinen pituus (astronomic longitude, geographic longitude), tähtitieteellinen paikanmääritys (astronomic position determination, astronomical position determination), tähtitieteellinen havainto (astronomic observation, astronomical observation), tähtitieteellinen geodesia (astronomic geodesy, astronomical geodesy), tähtiaika (astronomic time, astronomical time, sidereal time), napakorkeus (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), napakolmio (astronomic triangle, astronomical triangle), maantieteellinen pituus (astronomic longitude, geographic longitude), maantieteellinen leveys (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude), geodeettinen leveys (astronomic latitude, astronomical latitude, geodetic latitude, geographic latitude, geographical latitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | astronomique (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | astronomisch (astronomical, astronomically). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αστρονομικόσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | csillagászati (astral, astronomical), asztronómiai (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | astronomico (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | astronómiko (astronomer, astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | astronomicay astronômico (astronomical). (various references) astronomic (astronomical), uriaş (astronomical, colossal, colossus, elephantine, enormous, giant, giantlike, gigantic, goliath, huge, immense, infinite, mammoth, mite, monster, monumental, mountainous, ogre, prodigious, strapping, thumping, vast), colosal (astronomical, capitally, colossal, colossally, enormous, enormously, gigantic, grand, huge, jumbo, monster, monstrous, mountain, ocean-wide, smashing, some, strapping, terrible, thundering, vast). (various references) астрономический (astronomical). (various references) astronomski (astronomical, big). (various references) astronómico (astronomical). (various references) astronomisk (astronomical). (various references) astronomik (astronomical, stratospheric), gökbilimsel (astronomical), çok yüksek (astronomical, sky high, towering). (various references) величезний (astronomical, babylonian, banging, decuman, dimensionless, enormous, flagrant, formidable, giantlike, grandiose, great, handsome, huge, immense, mighty, monstrous, mountainous, overwhelming, prodigious, slapping, swingeing, thumping, thundering, tremendous, vasty, walloping, whacking, whaling), астрономічний (astronomical, celestial), астрономний (astronomical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "astronomic": astronomical, astronomically. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "astronomic": gastronomic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "astronomic": gastronomical, gastronomically, nonastronomical. (additional references) | |
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"Astronomic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Astrasoi, astronome, Astronomia, astronomica, astronomie, aztreonam. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "astronomic" (pronounced 'As`tro*nom"ic'): Abdominothoracic, Abietic, Abietinic, Abiogenetic, Ablastemic, Abrahamic, Acerbic, Aceric, Acetonic, Achromatic, Achronic, Acidic, Acidific, Aclinic, Acologic, Acopic, Acroatic, Acrobatic, Acrocephalic, Acromonogrammatic, Acrotic, Acrylic, Actinic, Actinolitic, Actinophonic, Adelocodonic, Adenographic, Adenotomic, Adiabatic, Adiactinic, Adipic, Adipolytic, Adonic, Adriatic, Adynamic, AEolotropic, Aerobiotic, Aerodynamic, Aerolitic, AEsthesodic, Agamic, Agamogenetic, Agenesic, Agnatic, Agonic, Agonothetic, Agraphic, Agrypnotic, Albinotic, Alcaic. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: acromions, consortia, monocrats, onomastic, romantics. | |
-2 letters: acromion, acrotism, amotions, carotins, cartoons, corantos, minorcas, monastic, monitors, monocrat, omicrons, orations, ostracon, romantic. | |
-3 letters: actions, amorino, amorist, amotion, anosmic, aroints, atomics, atonics, camions, cantors, carotin, cartons, cartoon, cations, cistron, citrons, consort, contras, coranto, coronas, cortins, cratons, crimson, crotons, macrons, maniocs, manitos, mantric, maroons, martins, masonic, matrons. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-i-m-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: gastronomic, monogastric. | |
+2 letters: astronomical, craniotomies, embrocations, paronomastic, postromantic, trichomonads. | |
+3 letters: anisometropic, carcinomatous, combinatorics, commiseration, communicators, compurgations, confirmations, conformations, contaminators, gastronomical, pococurantism, proclamations. | |
+4 letters: actinomorphies, astronomically, carcinomatoses, carcinomatosis, commemorations, commensuration, commiserations, contemporaries, microanatomies, microplanktons, micropulsation, miscorrelation, monochromatism, mortifications, pococurantisms, recombinations, recompilations, recomputations, triamcinolones, trichomoniases, trichomoniasis. | |
+5 letters: commensurations, conglomerations, decontaminators, echinodermatous, econometricians, excommunicators, gastronomically, intercomparison, macroevolutions, micropulsations, microtonalities, miscorrelations, monochromatisms, monocrystalline, neoconservatism, nonastronomical, nonrecombinants, organometallics, overmedications, pharmacognostic, pronunciamentos, recommendations, reconfirmations, trichomonacides. | |
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