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[syn: astronomic, astronomical, galactic]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Galactic \Ga*lac"tic\, a. [Gr. ? milky, fr. ?, ?, milk. See
Galaxy, and cf. Lactic.]
1. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic
acid.
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2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.
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Galactic circle (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens,
to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms.
--Herschel.
Galactic poles, the poles of the galactic circle.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
galactic
adj 1: of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the
Milky Way); "the galactic plane"
2: inconceivably large [syn: astronomic, astronomical,
galactic]