Comet
11comet — cometary /kom i ter ee/, cometic /keuh met ik/, cometical, adj. cometlike, adj. /kom it/, n. Astron. a celestial body moving about the sun, usually in a highly eccentric orbit, consisting of a central mass surrounded by an envelope of dust and… …
12Comet — En el desarrollo web, Comet es un neologismo para describir un modelo de aplicación web en el que una petición HTTP mantenida abierta permite a un servidor web enviar datos a un navegador por Tecnología Push, sin que el navegador los solicite… …
13Comet — Cette page d’homonymie répertorie les différents sujets et articles partageant un même nom. Le nom Comet (comète en anglais) a été donné, par ordre chronologique, à : Comet, un char de combat britannique de la Seconde Guerre mondiale ;… …
14Comet Co. — Die Comet Company war ein US amerikanische Automobilhersteller, der nur 1947 in Los Angeles (Kalifornien) ansässig war. Der Comet basierte auf einem zeitgenössischen Ford V8 oder Reihensechszylinder Modell und wurde von Frank Kurtis entworfen.… …
15Comet — The nucleus of a comet is only a few miles across, and made of mostly water ice, with some methane and ammonia. As the comet leaves the area of the Oort Cloud and falls into the orbit of the outer planets, the volatile elements of the nucleus… …
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16comet — [13] Comet means literally ‘the longhaired one’. Greek kómē meant ‘hair’, but it was also applied metaphorically to the tail of a comet, which was thought of as streaming out behind like a luxuriant head of hair being blown by the wind. Hence an… …
17comet — [13] Comet means literally ‘the longhaired one’. Greek kómē meant ‘hair’, but it was also applied metaphorically to the tail of a comet, which was thought of as streaming out behind like a luxuriant head of hair being blown by the wind. Hence an… …
18comet — com|et [ˈkɔmıt US ˈka: ] n [Date: 1100 1200; : Latin; Origin: cometa, from Greek kometes long haired, comet , from kome hair ; because of its long tail] an object in space like a bright ball with a long tail, that moves around the sun ▪ Halley s… …
19comet — [[t]kɒ̱mɪt[/t]] comets N COUNT A comet is a bright object with a long tail that travels around the sun. Halley s Comet is going to come back in 2061 …
20comet — UK [ˈkɒmɪt] / US [ˈkɑmət] noun [countable] Word forms comet : singular comet plural comets a bright object in space that has a tail of gas and dust …
