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| a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
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| —n | |
| Greek myth the daughter of Cassiopeia and wife of Perseus, who saved her from a sea monster | |
| Andromeda2 (ænˈdrɒmɪdə) | |
| —n , Latin genitive Andromedae | |
| a constellation in the N hemisphere lying between Cassiopeia and Pegasus, the three brightest stars being of the second magnitude. It contains the Andromeda Galaxy a spiral galaxy 2.2 million light years away | |
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Word Origin & History
Andromeda
constellation, 1706, in classical mythology the daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopeia, from Gk., lit. "mindful of her husband," from andros, gen. of aner "man" (see anthropo-) + medesthai "to be mindful of, think on," related to medea (neut. pl.) "counsels, plans, devices,
cunning" (and source of the name Medea).
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Science Dictionary
Andromeda  (ān-drŏm'ĭ-də) Pronunciation Key
A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Perseus and Pegasus. It contains a spiral-shaped galaxy that, at a distance of 2.2 million light-years, is the farthest celestial object visible to the naked eye. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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andromeda
in astronomy, constellation of the northern sky at about one hour right ascension (the coordinate on the celestial sphere analogous to longitude on the Earth) and 40 north declination (angular distance north of the celestial equator), named for Andromeda of Greek legend. Its most notable feature is the great Andromeda Galaxy.
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