Definition of COMET. Meaning of COMET. Synonyms of COMET

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Definition of COMET

Comet
Comet Com"et, n. [L. cometes, cometa, from Gr. ? comet, prop. long-haired, fr. ? to wear long hair, fr. ? hair, akin to L. coma: cf. F. com[`e]te.] (Astron.) A member of the solar system which usually moves in an elongated orbit, approaching very near to the sun in its perihelion, and receding to a very great distance from it at its aphelion. A comet commonly consists of three parts: the nucleus, the envelope, or coma, and the tail; but one or more of these parts is frequently wanting. See Illustration in Appendix.

Meaning of COMET from wikipedia

- A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when p****ing close to the Sun, a process called outg****ing. This produces...
- Halley's Comet is the only known short-period comet that is consistently visible to the naked eye from Earth, appearing every 72–80 years, though with...
- Havilland DH.106 Comet is the world's first commercial jet airliner. Developed and manufactured by de Havilland in the United Kingdom, the Comet 1 prototype...
- Look up Comet or comet in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A comet is a small astronomical body which orbits the sun. Comet or The Comet may also refer...
- Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 (formally designated D/1993 F2) was a comet that broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the...
- Comet Lake is Intel's codename for its 10th generation Core processors. They are manufactured using Intel's third 14 nm Skylake process revision, succeeding...
- Comet Hale–Bopp (formally designated C/1995 O1) is a long-period comet that was one of the most widely observed of the 20th century and one of the brightest...
- Marine (Imperial Navy) have been named SMS Comet: SMS Comet (1860), a gunboat launched in 1860 SMS Comet (1892), an aviso launched in 1892 SMS Komet...
- Comet is a web application model in which a long-held HTTPS request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting...
- used the name Comet no fewer than 18 times: HMS Comet (1695) was a 4-gun bomb vessel built in 1695 that the French captured in 1706. HMS Comet (1742) was...