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interstellar - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
adjective
from The Century Dictionary.
interstellar spaces or worlds.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective between the stars adjective among the stars
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
adjective
Etymologies
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inter- + stellar
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Carl Sagan: The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space.
Critical Thinking Exercise 2010
Carl Sagan: The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space.
Critical Thinking Exercise 2010
So many years without hard, physical evidence; the extreme unlikeliness of a successful cover-up that spans over fifty years, one that would involve not only multiple U.S. administrations, but numerous foreign governments; the distances involved in interstellar travel ...
Governments Suppress Alien Truth - Former NASA Astronaut Edgar Mitchell - NASA Watch 2009
FOPS provides a wide-ranging reference for researchers who are starting out in interstellar propulsion.
Frontiers of Propulsion Science « dudegalea 2009
Carl Sagan: The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space.
Critical Thinking Exercise 2010
Both novels also rely on a rare drug as an important player in interstellar politics.
The Snow Queen Erika Nelson 2008
A rather good tale that beings with a tense and exciting mission of subterfuge to escape from a very fascist dystopia to start a colony in interstellar space.
Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Coyote - Allen M. Steele Blue Tyson 2008
Both novels also rely on a rare drug as an important player in interstellar politics.
Archive 2008-09-01 Erika Nelson 2008
The signal was spread out, with the higher frequencies arriving at the telescope before the lower frequencies, which happens when a signal passes through electrically charged gas in interstellar and intergalactic space.
Cosmic Ghost Leaves Radio Footprint | Impact Lab 2007
An archaeologist from the Threshers Verity Auger becomes embroiled in interstellar intrigue when she discovers a duplicate Earth, held in stasis by alien technology, has become active and in fact can now be visited.
REVIEW: Century Rain by Alastair Reynolds 2006
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