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planetarium

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CIDE DICTIONARY

planetariumn. [NL.: cf. F. planétaire. See Planetary.].
     An orrery. See Orrery.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

planetarium, n. (pl. planetariums or planetaria)
1 a domed building in which images of stars, planets, constellations, etc. are projected for public entertainment or education.
2 the device used for such projection.
3 = ORRERY.

Etymology
mod.L (as PLANET)

THESAURUS

planetarium

Cassegrainian telescope, Newtonian telescope, OAO, OSO, astronomical observatory, astronomical telescope, coelostat, coronagraph, coronograph, heliostat, observatory, orrery, radar telescope, radio observatory, radio telescope, reflector, refractor, spectrograph, spectroheliograph, spectrohelioscope, spectroscope, telescope

ROGET THESAURUS

planetarium

World

N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.


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