(a.) Belonging to the aerial regions, or visible heavens.
(a.) Of or pertaining to the spiritual heaven; heavenly; divine.
(n.) An inhabitant of heaven.
(n.) A native of China.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently the company had to agree to a sales target with banks as part of a refinancing of its debt burden, which had come down to less than £1bn after the sale of Branston Pickle to Japanese Mizkan Group and the sale of Hartley's jams and Sun-Pat peanut butter to US company Hain Celestial.
(2) The 700-strong trade mission to Emperor Qianlong sailed in a man-of-war equipped with 66 guns, compromising diplomats, businessmen and soldiers, but it ended in an impasse with the emperor refusing to meet them, saying: "We the celestial empire have never valued ingenious articles, nor do we have the slightest need of your country's manufactures."
(3) I never felt stirrings of faith – apart from when faced with natural wonders such as the multilayered celestial splendour of a night sky, my newborn babies, an epic coastline – so I embraced tolerance and tried to remain open to the multitude of organised belief systems I don’t share.
(4) In contrast, it becomes more than 70% of axial length in Chinese Black Moors and Celestials.
(5) The US space agency's Opportunity rover has clocked more miles on Mars than any man-made vehicle to reach another celestial body, according to Nasa .
(6) The Celestial goldfish is considered to be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
(7) The term originated on forums for discussing the game Kerbal Space Program, a gruellingly difficult simulation which tasks players with building spaceships and getting them to orbit (and, eventually, landing on other celestial bodies).
(8) And it allowed us to add to those celestial bodies too, heralding the space age.
(9) The surrounding hills are relatively low, and a great dome of sky hangs over Brodgar, perfect for watching the setting and rising of the sun, moon and other celestial objects.
(10) There was talk, too, of Serbian history, and its people's long and "celestial" struggle.
(11) We’ve been looking at Stonehenge from a modern, earth-bound perspective.” “All the great raised altars of the past suggest that the people who built Stonehenge would never have performed celestial ceremonies on the lowly earth,” he went on.
(12) Air, representing ultrasonic energy as a celestial entity, became bird-god, Red-bird.
(13) His voice and acoustic guitar were complemented by what seemed like a celestial dawn chorus of birds and I thought he must be singing to us from another dimension.
(14) In a celestial touch typical of Soleri’s designs, the area behind the stage is fitted with reclining steps, angled upwards for gazing at the stars.
(15) By looking at the movement of Mars, Kepler had calculated that planets orbited the sun in elliptical paths and, in a kind of celestial clockwork, his three laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to work out the position of the planets in the future based on data from past records.
(16) Their standards are high but here they met opponents who produced celestial football.
(17) They weren’t symbols of celestial bodies but forces for permanence on earth.
(18) Since similar goldfish do not show these changes, however, the Celestial goldfish may be a new model of hereditary retinal degeneration.
(19) That work prompted researchers to test the idea by reconstructing celestial impacts in the laboratory.
(20) "If I could buy one piece, I'd buy the Celestial Bonnet, the five rings light installation by Stephen Jones and Cerith Wyn Evans," says Caroline Rush.
Sextile
Definition:
(a.) Measured by sixty degrees; fixed or indicated by a distance of sixty degrees.
(n.) The aspect or position of two planets when distant from each other sixty degrees, or two signs. This position is marked thus: /.
Example Sentences:
(1) In considering logistic function 46% of CHD new cases originated from the first four informative characteristics of the upper sextile.
(2) Risk of CHD development in the upper sextile was 6 times as high as in the lower sextile.
(3) Risk of CHD development compared to the lower sextile increased 9.5-fold.
(4) Cholesterol metabolism has been studied in two groups of five rhesus monkeys each that were selected from the upper and lower sextile in the distribution of serum cholesterol concentration while being fed an atherogenic diet.
(5) 50% of all CHD new cases originated from the upper sextile of distribution (17% of values).