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Another word for astronomical

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  1. Pertaining to astronomy

  2. Of a magnitude suggesting distances in astronomy

    See also:

    many

    large

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Sentence Examples

  • The odds against the coincidence were astronomical, until I considered the facts.

  • He also compiled astronomical tables and a treatise on the quadrant.

  • Gregory was one of the founders of the Royal Astronomical Society.

  • He wrote An Astronomical Description of the late Comet (1619); Canicularia (1648); and translated Proclus' De Sphaera, and Ptolemy's De Planetarum Hypothesibus (1620).

  • Mr Charles Green was commissioned to conduct the astronomical observations, and Sir Joseph Banks and Dr Solander were appointed botanists to the expedition.

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