- Hal|ley's comet
- Hal|ley's comet «HAL eez, HAYL»,the comet that Halley predicted could be seen about every 77 years. Its last return was in 1986.╂[< Edmond or Edmund Halley, 1656-1742, an English astronomer]
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Halley's comet — Hal′ley s com′et [[t]ˈhæl iz[/t]] or, often, [[t]ˈheɪ liz[/t]] n. astron. a comet with a period averaging 76 years: most recently visible in 1986 • Etymology: after Edmund Halley, who first predicted its return pron: The common pronunciation for… … From formal English to slang
Halley's comet — Hal|ley s com|et a ↑comet (=an object in space like a bright ball with a long tail) that moves around the Sun and passes close to the Earth every 76 years. It was named after the English ↑astronomer Edmund Halley (1656 1742), and it last appeared … Dictionary of contemporary English
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Halley,Edmund — Hal·ley (hălʹē), Edmund or Edmond 1656 1742. English astronomer who applied Newton s laws of motion to predict correctly the period of a comet (1705). * * * … Universalium
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