(n.) A northern constellation, supposed to represent the mythical Andromeda.
(n.) A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by water.
Example Sentences:
(1) Andromeda is the nearest large galaxy to our own Milky Way.
(2) Tom Neenan: The Andromeda Paradox Pleasance Dome, to 31 Aug Last year he made everyone jump because his show had two really scary bits in it.
(3) I don’t think an Andromeda strain will wipe out all humans.
(4) But "near" is a relative term in intergalactic space – the Andromeda galaxy is 2.5m light years away.
(5) If you take a look on a very clear night at the constellation of Andromeda, a little fuzzy patch of light is just visible with the naked eye.
(6) In addition, cosmic threats to our existence have always been with us, even thought it has taken us some time to notice: the collision of our galaxy, the Milky Way, with our nearest neighbour, Andromeda, for example, or the arrival of a black hole.
(7) "The sense that there's a bridge, that a hand can be extended, and you can step from the Earth, from the supermarket car park, into the Andromeda nebulae or whatever."
Pegasus
Definition:
(n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration.
(n.) A northen constellation near the vernal equinoctial point. Its three brightest stars, with the brightest star of Andromeda, form the square of Pegasus.
(n.) A genus of small fishes, having large pectoral fins, and the body covered with hard, bony plates. Several species are known from the East Indies and China.
Example Sentences:
(1) A survey of 788 patients on a specialty support surface, Pegasus Airwave System, in 119 hospitals or hospices in the United Kingdom during February and March 1991 provided the largest database on the current pattern of use of any pressure-relieving mattress.
(2) Heavy rain last Thursday marred the Pegasus Day parade that marks the opening of the annual Kentucky Derby festival.
(3) This study describes the current use and reported effectiveness of the Pegasus Airwave System in pressure sore prevention.
(4) On film, he showed up in The Remains of the Day (1993); Paul Greengrass’s Bloody Sunday (2002), a harrowing documentary reconstruction of the protest and massacre in Derry in 1972; as Pegasus, head of MI7, in Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English (2003) and the foreign secretary in the Bond movie Quantum of Solace (2008) .
(5) Three-dimensional structures were generated using the torsion angle space program PEGASUS.
(6) Three giant planets were snapped around a star known as HR 8799 in the constellation of Pegasus, 130 light years from Earth.