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Alpha Orionis

Alpha Orionis proper noun: synonym of Betelgeuse.

Proper noun

Alpha Orionis

  1. Synonym of Betelgeuse.
    • Thus, to take an example, a concert in Boston can be copresent with a soccer match in Sydney, but not with a soccer match on, say, Alpha Orionis: the present as it is defined relative to the soccer match extends some ninety light minutes into space, and so includes Sydney, but not Alpha Orionis...2007, Yuval Dolev, Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 198
    Synonyms:
    Betelgeuse

Synonyms of Alpha Orionis

Questions about Alpha Orionis

What does Alpha Orionis mean?
Alpha Orionis means synonym of Betelgeuse.
What part of speech is Alpha Orionis?
Alpha Orionis is a proper noun.

Words near Alpha Orionis in the dictionary

  1. alpha males
  2. alpha max
  3. alpha maxes
  4. alpha naphthol
  5. Alpha Ophiuchi
  6. Alpha Orionis
  7. alpha pair
  8. alpha pairs
  9. alpha paper
  10. alpha particle
  11. alpha particle X-ray spectrometer

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