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Corona   /kərˈoʊnə/   Listen
noun
Corona  n.  (pl. L. coronae, E. coronas)  
1.
A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.
2.
(Arch.) The projecting part of a Classic cornice, the under side of which is cut with a recess or channel so as to form a drip.
3.
(Anat.) The upper surface of some part, as of a tooth or the skull; a crown.
4.
(Zool.) The shelly skeleton of a sea urchin.
5.
(Astronomy) A peculiar luminous appearance, or aureola, which surrounds the sun, and which is seen only when the sun is totally eclipsed by the moon.
6.
(Bot.)
(a)
An inner appendage to a petal or a corolla, often forming a special cup, as in the daffodil and jonquil.
(b)
Any crownlike appendage at the top of an organ.
7.
(Meteorol.)
(a)
A circle, usually colored, seen in peculiar states of the atmosphere around and close to a luminous body, as the sun or moon.
(b)
A peculiar phase of the aurora borealis, formed by the concentration or convergence of luminous beams around the point in the heavens indicated by the direction of the dipping needle.
8.
A crown or circlet suspended from the roof or vaulting of churches, to hold tapers lighted on solemn occasions. It is sometimes formed of double or triple circlets, arranged pyramidically. Called also corona lucis.
9.
(Mus.) A character called the pause or hold.





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"Corona" Quotes from Famous Books



... years. At last he seized a moment when the victories of Philip's son and successor, Alexander, were swaying popular feeling, to deliver a bitter harangue against the whole life and policy of his political opponent. Demosthenes answered in that magnificent oration called by the Latin writers 'De Corona' Aeschines was not upheld by the people's vote. He retired to Asia, and, it is said, opened a school of rhetoric at Rhodes. There is a legend that after he had one day delivered in his school the masterpiece of his enemy, his students broke into applause: "What," he exclaimed, ...
— Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 1 • Charles Dudley Warner
... necessary calculations, and predicted the various circumstances with a far higher degree of precision than the official announcement. He himself observed the phenomenon from the Royal Society's rooms, and he minutely describes the outer atmosphere of the sun, now known as the corona; without, however, offering an opinion as to whether it was a solar or a ...
— Great Astronomers • R. S. Ball
... upset a star, As through the air they flew: It cringed in fear, and shot afar, And fell where no one knew. Orion's sword was broke in bits, Corona's crown was gone, Capella seemed to lose her wits, While all so ...
— The Goblins' Christmas • Elizabeth Anderson
... on Old Hickory, tossin' the last three inches of a double Corona reckless into a copper bowl, "there's a leak somewhere ...
— Torchy As A Pa • Sewell Ford
... stretching up from it; he declared it to be quite as large as the moon, and not dim at the edges. I am so weak that any attempt to get a sight of it was out of the question; but I think it must have been Venus in the Zodiacal Light that he saw, with a corona around her. ...
— Successful Exploration Through the Interior of Australia • William John Wills


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