Contextualizebeta

comet

noun
/ˈkɒmɪt/

Etymology

From Middle English comete, partly from Old English comēta and partly from Old French comete, both from Latin comētēs, from Ancient Greek κομήτης (komḗtēs, “longhaired”), short for ἀστὴρ κομήτης ([astēr] komētēs, "longhaired [star])" and referring to the tail of a comet, from κόμη (kómē, “hair”). Compare English faxed star and Latin crīnīta stēlla (“comet”, literally “(long) haired star”).

  1. derived from κομήτης — “longhaired”
  2. derived from comētēs
  3. derived from comete
  4. inherited from comēta
  5. inherited from comete

Definitions

  1. A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock…

    A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.

  2. A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.

    • Upon his browes was pourtraid vgly death, And in his eies the furies of his heart, That ſhine as Comets, menacing reueng, And caſts a pale complexion on his cheeks.

  3. Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus.

    2. A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push…

      A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it.

The neighborhood

Derived

Biela's Comet, cometarium, cometary, comet darner, cometesimal, comet-finder, cometic, cometless, cometlike, Comet Neowise, cometocentric, cometographer, cometography, cometoid, cometology, comet-seeker, comet star, comet tail, cometwise, dead comet, exocomet, great comet, Halley's Comet, interstellar comet, near-Earth comet, parabolic comet, periodical comet, periodic comet, short period comet, short-period comet, supercomet, vomit comet

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01comet02enough03augmentation04noble05centuries06century07years08year

A definitional loop anchored at comet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at comet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA