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Pleiades

Pleiades Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Pleiades? [n] a star cluster in the constellation Taurus [n] (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion Synonyms \| Synonyms for Pleiades: Related Terms \| Find terms related to Pleiades: absolute magnitude \| Atlantides \| Beehive \| binary star \| black hole \| Cepheid variable \| double star \| dryad \| dwarf star \| fixed star \| flower nymph \| giant star \| glen nymph \| globular cluster \| gravity star \| hamadryad \| Hertzsprung-Russell diagram \| Hyades \| limoniad \| magnitude \| main sequence star \| mass-luminosity law \| Messier catalog \| mountain nymph \| Napaea \| neutron star \| NGC \| nova \| nymph \| nymphet \| nymphlin \| open cluster \| oread \| populations \| pulsar \| quasar \| quasi-stellar radio source \| radio star \| red giant star \| relative magnitude \| Seven Sisters \| sky atlas \| spectrum-luminosity diagram \| star \| star catalog \| star chart \| star cloud \| star cluster \| stellar magnitude \| supernova \| tree nymph \| variable star \| vila \| white dwarf star \| willi \| wood nymph See Also \| Asterope \| Asterope \| bunch \| clump \| cluster \| clustering \| nymph \| Sterope \| Sterope \| Taurus Pleiades In Webster's Dictionary \Ple"ia*des\ (?; 277), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. (?)] 1. (Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a constellation in the sky. 2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the constellation Taurus. --Job xxxviii. 31. Note: Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third magnitude, was considered by M["a]dler the central point around which our universe is revolving, but there is no sufficient evidence of such motion. Only six pleiads are distinctly visible to the naked eye, whence the ancients supposed that a sister had concealed herself out of shame for having loved a mortal, Sisyphus.

Pleiades Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pleiades?

[n] a star cluster in the constellation Taurus
[n] (Greek mythology) 7 daughters of Atlas and half-sisters of the Hyades; placed among the stars to save them from the pursuit of Orion

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Pleiades In Webster's Dictionary

\Ple"ia*des\ (?; 277), n. pl. [L., fr. Gr. (?)]
1. (Myth.) The seven daughters of Atlas and the nymph
   Pleione, fabled to have been made by Jupiter a
   constellation in the sky.

2. (Astron.) A group of small stars in the neck of the
   constellation Taurus. --Job xxxviii. 31.

Note: Alcyone, the brightest of these, a star of the third
      magnitude, was considered by M["a]dler the central
      point around which our universe is revolving, but there
      is no sufficient evidence of such motion. Only six
      pleiads are distinctly visible to the naked eye, whence
      the ancients supposed that a sister had concealed
      herself out of shame for having loved a mortal,
      Sisyphus.

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