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Galactic   /gəlˈæktɪk/   Listen
Galactic

adjective
1.
Of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way).
2.
Inconceivably large.  Synonyms: astronomic, astronomical.






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"Galactic" Quotes from Famous Books



... the boy curiously. He was a typical Khlorisana—olive skinned, slightly built, somewhat shorter than the average galactic. Don looked with a touch of envy at the smooth hairline, wondering why it was that the natives of this planet always seemed to have a perfect growth of head fur which never needed the attention of a barber. He rubbed his own unruly ...
— The Best Made Plans • Everett B. Cole

... into life with a picture of the smiling alien commander. "This is the linguistics section, Admiral. The aliens understand a fairly common galactic symbology, I believe we can translate ...
— A Matter of Magnitude • Al Sevcik

... 324,198 in number, on a single chart, and though these stars are all above the tenth magnitude, and thus superior in brightness to that innumerable host of stars of which the individual members are more or less lost in the galactic zone, and on the hypothesis of uniform distribution ought to be relatively near to us, the chart shows distinctly the whole course of the Milky Way by the clustering of these stars. This disposes sufficiently ...
— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball



Words linked to "Galactic" :   astronomic, galaxy, large, big



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