Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The constellation that includes the southern celestial pole.
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- proper noun astronomy A small
circumpolar constellation of thesouthern sky, said to resemble anoctant . It lies closest to the southerncelestial pole of any constellation.
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- noun the constellation that includes the southern celestial pole
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Octans Hadleianus after (now Octans) John Hadley (all astronomers)
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These include Carina CDO Ltd., named after a constellation in the southern sky, Orion 2006-2 Ltd., for a constellation named after a hunter, and Octans III CDO Ltd., named after another southern constellation.
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Morgan Stanley and UBS AG were among the banks that owned the top pieces of these CDOs, including Octans, according to people familiar with the situation.
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One consequence: In August 2006, Merrill Lynch bond executives decided to retain on the firm's books more than $900 million in mortgage securities to help Merrill complete a $1.5 billion underwriting of a CDO called Octans.
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It is Sigma Octantis, in the very dull southern constellation of Octans, the Octant.
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He is one of 15 suspects detained under the Australian Federal Police's "Operation Octans," carried out by authorities from the Netherlands, Thailand, Pakistan, Portugal, the United Kingdom and Australia.
My Sinchew - 2009
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