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Definition of galactic
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Synonyms & Antonyms for galactic
Synonyms
- astronomical
- (also astronomic),
- Brobdingnagian,
- bumper,
- colossal,
- cosmic
- (also cosmical),
- cyclopean,
- elephantine,
- enormous,
- gargantuan,
- giant,
- gigantesque,
- gigantic,
- grand,
- herculean,
- heroic
- (also heroical),
- Himalayan,
- huge,
- humongous
- (also humungous),
- immense,
- jumbo,
- king-size
- (or king-sized),
- leviathan,
- mammoth,
- massive,
- mega,
- mighty,
- monster,
- monstrous,
- monumental,
- mountainous,
- oceanic,
- pharaonic,
- planetary,
- prodigious,
- super,
- super-duper,
- supersize,
- supersized,
- titanic,
- tremendous,
- vast,
- vasty,
- walloping,
- whacking,
- whopping
Antonyms
- bantam,
- bitty,
- diminutive,
- infinitesimal,
- Lilliputian,
- little bitty,
- micro,
- microminiature,
- microscopic
- (also microscopical),
- midget,
- miniature,
- minuscule,
- minute,
- pocket,
- pygmy,
- teensy,
- teensy-weensy,
- teeny,
- teeny-weeny,
- tiny,
- wee
Examples of galactic in a Sentence
a galactic serving of soda that would have been enough for three moviegoers
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So the Interstellar Probe will see what’s coming next, and whether the Sun’s heliosphere adjusts to a changing level of galactic cosmic rays in this new region of space.
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Jamie Carter, Forbes, "NASA’s New ‘Voyager’: 7 Things To Know About The 50-Year ‘Interstellar Probe’ Mission To Burst Our Cosmic Bubble," 27 Apr. 2021
The wake created by the Large Magellanic Cloud is about 200,000 light-years to 325,000 light-years from the galactic center.
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Ashley Strickland, CNN, "New Milky Way map reveals a wave of stars in our galaxy's outer reaches," 25 Apr. 2021
In this case, the scientists say, there are no active galactic nuclei anywhere nearby, but the space jellyfish is likely the remnant of one—the scientists believe the jellyfish to be 2 billion years old.
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Caroline Delbert, Popular Mechanics, "No One Knows What to Make of This Mysterious Space Jellyfish," 9 Apr. 2021
Active galactic nuclei are galaxies in which the cores emit vast amounts of energy and shoot vast amounts of energy out into space, according to the Herschel Space Observatory.
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Julia Musto, Fox News, "NASA's Chandra Observatory looking at barred spiral galaxy 86 million light-years away," 11 Mar. 2021
Such swirling active galactic nuclei (AGNs), as they are known, would have been hotspots of commotion where smaller black holes could have met new partners and merged, explaining the new LIGO-Virgo event.
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Adam Mann, Scientific American, "LIGO and Virgo Capture Their Most Massive Black Holes Yet," 2 Sep. 2020
Lynch summarizes the galactic stakes of Dune in an opening monologue delivered by a young Virginia Madsen playing Princess Irulan.
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Jill Krajewski, Vulture, "David Lynch’s Dune Is a Beautiful Sci-fi Disaster," 29 Mar. 2021
From Suzman’s galactic perspective, there’s disappointingly little to say about labor.
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Daniel Immerwahr, The New Republic, "Paleo Con," 24 Mar. 2021
It is known as a type II Seyfert galaxy, with an active galactic nucleus, according to NASA.
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Julia Musto, Fox News, "NASA's Chandra Observatory looking at barred spiral galaxy 86 million light-years away," 11 Mar. 2021
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“Galactic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/galactic. Accessed 13 May. 2021.
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ga·lac·tic
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Kids Definition of galactic
: of or relating to a galaxy
galactic light
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