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celestial sphere
noun as in celestial body
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noun as in celestial object
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noun as in heavenly body
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noun as in sky
Example Sentences
But from a terrestrial perspective, the celestial sphere appears essentially unchanging.
This pairing hums with a soft energy, attuned perhaps to the same celestial spheres that Gouverneur hoped to crack open.
But there’s no need to be perfectly versed in every detail of the celestial sphere.
In his only surviving work, Hipparchus criticized earlier astronomical writers for not caring about numerical accuracy in their visions of orbits and celestial spheres.
Their model of the universe involved the "celestial spheres" creating a kind of harmony as they moved in circles dictated by the same arithmetical relationships as musical harmonies.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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