Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
stellate .
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- adjective
star -shaped;stellate - adjective geometry Of a
polyhedron , having its edges of planes extended to form a new shape.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In combination with Persephone – which orbits a stellated gas giant on the outer edge of The Core – Hera/Persephone form a kind of “airlock” between The Core and the rest of the Verse, making it a target of great strategic importance.
Firefly Ship Works Ltd. » Blog Archive » Map of the Verse 2008
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The Cross slipped sidewise past the Disk, its courtiers, its stellated guardians.
The Metal Monster 2004
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Between the girders they draped themselves in long, stellated garlands; grouped themselves in innumerable, kaleidoscopic patterns.
The Metal Monster 2004
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The whole line was stellated with concrete machine-gun emplacements, which gave a perfect command over the former British front line trenches.
The Story of the "9th King's" in France Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts
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Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
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Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
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Then it began to scramble all over the oval stellated globe of the tiny blossoms.
The Picture of Dorian Gray Oscar Wilde 1877
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The projection or radiation of these fragments from a central point gives the fracture a stellated or star like appearance; and hence, the name of the fracture.
An Epitome of Practical Surgery, for Field and Hospital. 1863
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They are monopetalous, small, white, stellated in six points.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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The technical terminology for the change is "the transformation of two stellated rhombic dodecahedrons from a cube".
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