Constellation
noun
A group of stars that form a shape in the night sky and is given a name.
The Orion is a well-known constellation.
Often appears as...
- orion constellation
- ursa major constellation
noun
A collection or group of related things.
The successful launch was due to a constellation of factors.
Often appears as...
- constellation of factors
- constellation of symptoms
noun
In psychology, a constellation is a group of personality traits or behaviors that are closely related.
His constellation of symptoms included restlessness and difficulty concentrating.
Often appears as...
- constellation of symptoms
- character constellation
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noun
A group of stars that form a shape in the night sky and is given a name.
The Orion is a well-known constellation.
Often appears as...
- orion constellation
- ursa major constellation
noun
A collection or group of related things.
The successful launch was due to a constellation of factors.
Often appears as...
- constellation of factors
- constellation of symptoms
noun
In psychology, a constellation is a group of personality traits or behaviors that are closely related.
His constellation of symptoms included restlessness and difficulty concentrating.
Often appears as...
- constellation of symptoms
- character constellation
Usage tips
Academic
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Night Sky Shapes
Remember 'constellation' refers to recognizable star patterns named after mythological beings, objects, or animals.
I can identify the constellation shaped like a lion; it's called Leo.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Constellations often have stories from ancient cultures; learning these can enhance memory and appreciation.
Each constellation, like Orion, has its place in Greek mythology.
Pro Tip 3/3Navigation Aid
Historically, constellations served as guides for navigation, which can be an interesting context to explore.
Sailors used the Big Dipper constellation to find their way at sea.
Pro Tip 1/3Night Sky Shapes
Remember 'constellation' refers to recognizable star patterns named after mythological beings, objects, or animals.
I can identify the constellation shaped like a lion; it's called Leo.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Constellations often have stories from ancient cultures; learning these can enhance memory and appreciation.
Each constellation, like Orion, has its place in Greek mythology.
Pro Tip 3/3Navigation Aid
Historically, constellations served as guides for navigation, which can be an interesting context to explore.
Sailors used the Big Dipper constellation to find their way at sea.
Pro Tip 1/3Night Sky Shapes
Remember 'constellation' refers to recognizable star patterns named after mythological beings, objects, or animals.
I can identify the constellation shaped like a lion; it's called Leo.
Pro Tip 2/3Cultural Significance
Constellations often have stories from ancient cultures; learning these can enhance memory and appreciation.
Each constellation, like Orion, has its place in Greek mythology.
Pro Tip 3/3Navigation Aid
Historically, constellations served as guides for navigation, which can be an interesting context to explore.
Sailors used the Big Dipper constellation to find their way at sea.
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Now we can look at something like a brain and look at the individual molecules, because we've moved them far apart enough from each other that we can tell them apart. So the hope here is that we can make the invisible visible. We can turn things that might seem small and obscure and blow them up until they're like constellations of information about life.
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Underwater on Bermuda’s...
around this island which is actually quite incredible because it's not that big a place which means that pretty much anywhere you swim you're gonna bump into a shipwreck they form an integral part of our national identity it's one of the Bermudas most iconic shipwrecks there's actually two shipwrecks laid on top of each other you have the constellation
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A sci-fi vision of love...
and we kept arriving at new vistas, and these new, perfect constellations of words would come out of us to describe them. And we'd forget them as soon as we made them, and throw them over our shoulder and go on to the next thing, on and up. Or one time, Navid said that our talk was like we were always making bread,
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Tiny satellites that...
It's going to be the largest constellation of satellites in human history. And this is what it's going to Acting in a single-orbit plane that stays fixed with respect to the sun, the Earth rotates underneath. They're all cameras pointed down, and they slowly scan across as the Earth rotates underneath.
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Small rockets are the...
to place large constellations, of small satellites in orbit to deliver internet to every square millimeter on the planet. And for pretty much everybody in this room, that's just handy, because we can stream Netflix anywhere we want. But if you think about the developing countries of the world,
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Why are these 32 symbols...
of things from the world around them. Could some of the signs be weaponry or housing? Or what about celestial objects like star constellations? Or maybe even rivers, mountains, trees -- landscape features, possibly like this black penniform surrounded by strange bell-shaped signs
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The biggest mistakes in...
showing trade routes, settlements, topography, water sources, the shapes of coastlines, or written directions— and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the Earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations.
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Using language and time...
brought to life by the movement of other it uses a proximity sensor to form and fragment the word when a viewer is near or far when viewed from a distance the work almost appears to be a painting of a constellation in the night sky but as
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Astronomers studying the constellation Cygnus discovered the first black hole. An untold number of black holes are scattered throughout the universe, constantly warping space and time, altering entire galaxies, and endlessly inspiring
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SpaceX's Supersized...
in the constellation of Orion. It is a a star-forming region where new stars are being born. And in order to understand these processes in the universe, we need large telescopes in space to send us back this type of data.
Video examples
A new way to study the...
Now we can look at something like a brain and look at the individual molecules, because we've moved them far apart enough from each other that we can tell them apart. So the hope here is that we can make the invisible visible. We can turn things that might seem small and obscure and blow them up until they're like constellations of information about life.
Video examples
Underwater on Bermuda’s...
around this island which is actually quite incredible because it's not that big a place which means that pretty much anywhere you swim you're gonna bump into a shipwreck they form an integral part of our national identity it's one of the Bermudas most iconic shipwrecks there's actually two shipwrecks laid on top of each other you have the constellation
Video examples
A sci-fi vision of love...
and we kept arriving at new vistas, and these new, perfect constellations of words would come out of us to describe them. And we'd forget them as soon as we made them, and throw them over our shoulder and go on to the next thing, on and up. Or one time, Navid said that our talk was like we were always making bread,
Video examples
Tiny satellites that...
It's going to be the largest constellation of satellites in human history. And this is what it's going to Acting in a single-orbit plane that stays fixed with respect to the sun, the Earth rotates underneath. They're all cameras pointed down, and they slowly scan across as the Earth rotates underneath.
Video examples
Small rockets are the...
to place large constellations, of small satellites in orbit to deliver internet to every square millimeter on the planet. And for pretty much everybody in this room, that's just handy, because we can stream Netflix anywhere we want. But if you think about the developing countries of the world,
Video examples
Why are these 32 symbols...
of things from the world around them. Could some of the signs be weaponry or housing? Or what about celestial objects like star constellations? Or maybe even rivers, mountains, trees -- landscape features, possibly like this black penniform surrounded by strange bell-shaped signs
Video examples
The biggest mistakes in...
showing trade routes, settlements, topography, water sources, the shapes of coastlines, or written directions— and what are known as cosmographies, illustrating the Earth and its position in the cosmos, often including constellations, gods, and mythic locations.
Video examples
Using language and time...
brought to life by the movement of other it uses a proximity sensor to form and fragment the word when a viewer is near or far when viewed from a distance the work almost appears to be a painting of a constellation in the night sky but as
Video examples
Black Holes 101 PIPE...
Astronomers studying the constellation Cygnus discovered the first black hole. An untold number of black holes are scattered throughout the universe, constantly warping space and time, altering entire galaxies, and endlessly inspiring
Video examples
SpaceX's Supersized...
in the constellation of Orion. It is a a star-forming region where new stars are being born. And in order to understand these processes in the universe, we need large telescopes in space to send us back this type of data.
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Jane Hawking
English Author
We would look up at the night sky together, and although Stephen wasn't actually very good at detecting constellations, he would tell me about the expanding universe and the possibility of it contracting again and describe a star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole in a way that was quite easy to understand.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American Poet
You will be hard pressed to read another book that understands you as well as 'Leaves of Grass' does. It was made for you in the way that the constellations were made for you. It understands and makes space for your doubts, your love, the guilt and passions of your life and waits for you.
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Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself.
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Alan Watts
English Philosopher
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.
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Jairam Ramesh
Indian Economist
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
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Jay Penske
American Businessman
PMC's constellation of multi-platform entertainment brands continues to be a leader in entertainment news.
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Thomas Pynchon
American Writer
She would give them order. She would create constellations.
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Walter Mercado
Puerto Rican Celebrity
He used to be a star, but now... Walter is a constellation.
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Jane Hawking
English Author
We would look up at the night sky together, and although Stephen wasn't actually very good at detecting constellations, he would tell me about the expanding universe and the possibility of it contracting again and describe a star collapsing in on itself to form a black hole in a way that was quite easy to understand.
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Rowan Ricardo Phillips
American Poet
You will be hard pressed to read another book that understands you as well as 'Leaves of Grass' does. It was made for you in the way that the constellations were made for you. It understands and makes space for your doubts, your love, the guilt and passions of your life and waits for you.
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Douglas Coupland
Canadian Author
When the world throws you too much information, the only way you can stay sane or survive is to look for pattern recognition. Amidst all the blurs, is there a constellation that emerges, is there a straight line that's emerging?
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Khaled Hosseini
Afghani Novelist
I never thought what I wrote was good enough to be published. I thought of myself as completely detached from that constellation of real writers. It was completely for myself.
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Alan Watts
English Philosopher
Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
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Richard Dawkins
English Scientist
A constellation is not an entity at all, not the kind of thing that Uranus, or anything else, can sensibly be said to 'move into.
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Jairam Ramesh
Indian Economist
Governments can't keep looking over the shoulder or at the constellation of stars. You have got to do what you have got to do.
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Jay Penske
American Businessman
PMC's constellation of multi-platform entertainment brands continues to be a leader in entertainment news.
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Thomas Pynchon
American Writer
She would give them order. She would create constellations.
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Walter Mercado
Puerto Rican Celebrity
He used to be a star, but now... Walter is a constellation.
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