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Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - comet

 
 

Comet

comet
n. a hazy object usu. with a nucleus of ice and dust surrounded by gas and with a tail pointing away from the sun, moving about the sun in an eccentric orbit. Derivatives cometary adj. Etymology: ME f. OF comete f. L cometa f. Gk kometes long-haired (star)
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  noun Etymology: Middle English ~e, from Old English ~a, from Latin, from Greek komētēs, literally, long-haired, from koman to wear long hair, from komē hair Date: before 12th century a celestial body that appears as a fuzzy head usually surrounding a bright nucleus, that has a usually highly eccentric orbit, that consists primarily of ice and dust, and that often develops one or more long tails when near the sun, ~ary adjective ~ic adjective ...
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