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Scheat

Scheat proper noun: a semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.

Proper noun

Scheat

  1. A semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
    • [This is the Scheat of Tycho, the Palermo Catalogue, and modern lists generally, either from Al Sā'id the Upper Part of the Arm, or, as Hyde suggested, from the early Sa'd appearing in the subsequent three pairs of stars. Bayer had Seat Alpheras; Chilmead, Seat Alfaras; Riccioli, Scheat Alpheraz...1899, Richard Hinckley Allen, Star-Names and Their Meanings, New York: G. E. Stechert, page 325
    Synonyms:
    β Pegasi, β Peg, Beta Pegasi

Synonyms of Scheat

Origin of Scheat

From Arabic السَاعِد (as-sāʕid, literally “the forearm”).

Questions about Scheat

What does Scheat mean?
Scheat means a semiregular variable red giant, visible as a second-magnitude orange-red star in the northern constellation of Pegasus, one of four stars in the asterism of the Great Square of Pegasus.
What part of speech is Scheat?
Scheat is a proper noun.

Words near Scheat in the dictionary

  1. Schauthaler
  2. Schauts
  3. schav
  4. Schawbel
  5. schchi
  6. Scheat
  7. schebang
  8. schebangs
  9. schechina
  10. schechinah
  11. schechinahs

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