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methuselah

methuselah noun: a large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.

Noun (1)

methuselah (plural methuselahs or methuselae)

  1. A large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
    Synonyms:
    Imperial
  2. A small pattern that takes many generations to stabilize.
    • The first known methuselah was the r pentomino, but even longer lasting ones have been found by enumerating and testing small patterns. The following, called "rabbits," takes over 10000 generations to stabilize.1996 December 16, Paul Callahan, “Need help in finding topic for research project”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)
    • Is there somewhere a list of n-cell methuselah patterns in Conway's Life? (assuming some reasonable limits on the bounding box)2003 February 24, Michael Hedera, “Methuselahs in Conway's Life”, in comp.theory.cell-automata (Usenet)

Proper noun capitalized: Methuselah

Methuselah

  1. The oldest person whose age is recorded in the Hebrew Bible, having reportedly lived 969 years.
    • And Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech: And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Genesis 5:25-26
  2. A planet in the PSR B1620-26 star system, Messier 4 globular cluster, Milky Way Galaxy, Scorpius constellation; a circumbinary planet, officially named PSR B1620-26 b, orbiting a pulsar (“PSR B1620-26 A”) and white dwarf (“WD B1620-26 B”).

Noun (2) capitalized: Methuselah

Methuselah (plural Methuselahs)

  1. (broadly) Any person or thing that has lived to a very old age.
  2. (alternative) Alternative spelling of methuselah (“large wine bottle”).

Synonyms of methuselah

Forms of methuselah

pluralmethuselahs
pluralmethuselae
pluralMethuselahs

Origin of methuselah

From Biblical Hebrew מְתוּשֶׁלַח (Məṯûšelaḥ), also spelled מְתוּשָׁלַח (Məṯûšālaḥ). The planet's name stems from the fact that, at the time of its discovery in 2003, it was the oldest known planet.

Words formed from methuselah

Phrases with methuselah

Questions about methuselah

What does methuselah mean?
Methuselah means a large wine bottle with the capacity of about 6 liters, equivalent to 8 standard bottles.
What part of speech is methuselah?
Methuselah can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of methuselah?
The plural of methuselah is methuselahs.

Words near methuselah in the dictionary

  1. methsuximide
  2. Methuen
  3. Methul
  4. Methusael
  5. methuselae
  6. methuselah
  7. Methuselah Planet
  8. methuselahs
  9. Methuselaic
  10. Methuselan
  11. Methven

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