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Meanings of Uranocircite:
nounA bright yellow-green mineral typically occurring as thin, tabular crystals.
Meanings of Uranography:
nounThe branch of astronomy concerned with describing and mapping the stars.
Usage examples:
Their works covered the range of cosmography, uranography, hydrography, chorogreaphy and topography.
Meanings of Uranological:
adjectiveOf or relating to uranology.
Meanings of Uranologies:
nounThe study of the stars or the heavens; astronomy. also: a treatise or discourse on this subject; an astronomical system. now chiefly historical.
Meanings of Uranology:
nounThe study of the stars or the heavens; astronomy. also: a treatise or discourse on this subject; an astronomical system. now chiefly historical.
Meanings of Uranometria:
noun= uranometry . chiefly in the titles of works.
Meanings of Uranometrical:
adjectiveOf or relating to uranometry.
Meanings of Uranometry:
nounA work describing the heavens and especially the stars, giving their positions, magnitudes, etc. compare uranoscopy . now chiefly historical.
Meanings of Uranophane:
nounA yellow mineral occurring as an alteration product of uranium ores, typically as crusts or groups of radiating needle-like crystals.
Meanings of Uranoplastic:
nounIn singular or plural = uranoplasty .
adjectiveOf or relating to uranoplasty.
Meanings of Uranoplasty:
nounPlastic surgery of the palate, especially the hard palate; an instance of this.
Meanings of Uranoscope:
nounA stargazer fish of the family uranoscopidae; = "stargazer".
Meanings of Uranoscopic:
adjectiveIn jeremy bentham's terminology: relating to the observation of celestial objects.
Meanings of Uranoscopus:
nounOriginally: a stargazer fish (family uranoscopidae), a fish of the genus uranoscopus. now chiefly (in form uranoscopus): the genus itself.
Meanings of Uranoscopy:
nounThe observation or study of celestial objects. compare uranometry .
Meanings of Uranosphaerite:
nounA rare orange-yellow to red uranium mineral, often occurring in hemispherical aggregates.
Meanings of Uranospinite:
nounA yellowish-green mineral of the autunite group, found as an alteration product of uranium ores.
Meanings of Uranothallite:
nounA pale green form of liebigite, formerly regarded as a distinct variety.
Meanings of Uranothorite:
nounA variety of thorite containing a relatively high proportion of uranium.
Meanings of Uranous:
adjectiveOf or relating to uranium in one of its lower oxidation states (often +4); designating such a state. contrasted with "uranic".
Meanings of Uranus:
proper nounA distant planet of the solar system, seventh in order from the sun, discovered by william herschel in 1781.
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