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Planetarium   /plˌænətˈɛriəm/   Listen
Planetarium

noun
(pl. planetariums, planetaria)
1.
A building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling.
2.
An optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome.
3.
An apparatus or model for representing the solar systems.





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"Planetarium" Quotes from Famous Books



... Walk Gaerd Creamery was hailed by Sheila Hibben in The New Yorker of May 6, 1950, as enthusiastically as Brillat-Savarin would have greeted a new dish, or the Planetarium a new star: ...
— The Complete Book of Cheese • Robert Carlton Brown


Words linked to "Planetarium" :   edifice, building, optical device, model, simulation, orrery


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