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• Historically, trigonometry has been applied in areas such as geodesy, surveying, celestial mechanics and navigation.From the entry trigonometry
• The poor visibility of a dark celestial body follows from its nonradiative character by supervention.From the entry supervention
• Until after a full celestial epoch, the fairest place was befound and it was bequest them.2009, A. J. Marshall, The Bastion Prosecutor: Episode 3. From the entry befind
• Certainly not: celestial spheres were first excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death.2007, M. F. Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3. From the entry excogitate
• It’s just that there aren’t any observable implications of their celestial presence!”2006, Norman D. Cook, Models of the Atomic Nucleus: With Interactive Software, page 118. From the entry count angels on pinheads
• The antimeridian contains your nadir and the opposite celestial pole for your hemisphere.2006, William Millar, The Amateur Astronomer's Introduction to the Celestial Sphere, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 24. From the entry antimeridian
• That is, in about three years, I was going to make the old celestial transfer.”2005, Lanford Beard, editor, E! True Hollywood Story: The Real Stories Behind the Glitter, New York, NY: Chamberlain Bros., →ISBN, page 323. From the entry celestial transfer
• On seeing Kāma annihilated there, the Devas and the groups of celestial damsels became frightened.2001, Jagdish Lal Shastri, Arnold Kunst, G. P. Bhatt, Ancient Indian Tradition & Mythology, volume 63, page 429. From the entry kama
• Other items in the collection include a navaratna (nine gem) pendant or a celestial talisman from Rajasthan.1998, Tom Flynn, Colonisation and the Object-Empire, Material culture and the Museum. From the entry navaratna
• I perscrutated the engine, awaiting a celestial voice to chip in and guide me through the problems.1994, Tibor Fischer, The Thought Gang, United States: The New Press, →ISBN, page 25. From the entry perscrutate
• For the earth was both celestial and terrene, the down here and the up there.1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!. From the entry terrene
• The mountain top is formed by a crater, occupied by a lake called Tienchih ("celestial pond").1964, “CHANGPAI SHAN or PAEKTU SAN”, in Encyclopedia International, 1st edition, volume 4, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 247, column 2. From the entry Tienchih
• Amateur astronomers needn't do a lot of mathematical pencilwork with this clear, all-plastic celestial globe.1948 November, “Globe Aids Star Study”, in Popular Science, page 243. From the entry pencilwork
• Cretans may have practised, such as fetishism, hoplolatry, dendrolatry, zoolatry, the cult of celestial bodies, ancestor cult.1944, Brill, Cretan Religion in Relation to Greek Religion. From the entry hoplolatry
• As his mood was, Mozart would be dismissed as entirely tinklesome, or pæaned as utterly celestial.1930, James Agate, Gemel in London. From the entry tinklesome
• Every good, terrestrial or celestial, is imagined only to be turned from with disgust.1902, William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature […] , New York, N.Y.; London: Longmans, Green, and Co.…. From the entry anhedonia
• The celestial phenomenon is a must-see event for selenophiles hoping to see a total lunar eclipse and May’s full moon.2022 May 13, Joe Mario Pedersen, “Blood Flower Moon blossoms over Orlando during total lunar eclipse & full moon”, in Orlando Sentinel. From the entry selenophile
• The little-used name for this effect is called a "selenelion," a phenomenon that celestial geometry says cannot happen.2014, Joe Rao, Total Lunar Eclipse On Wednesday Will Be a Rare 'Selenelion'. From the entry selenelion
• It's Chinatown now, and you go with them in the roundup of celestial Chink-land until presently they stop—it's an inspiration.2014, Michael Lasser, America's Songs II: Songs from the 1890s to the Post-War Years, →ISBN. From the entry chink-land
• The oud's origins are unknown, although myths attribute either celestial or magical beginnings, it more likely came from ancient Persia.2010, Randy Raine-Reusch, Play The World: The 101 Instrument Primer, Mel Bay Publications, →ISBN, page 22. From the entry oud
• From the astral theology of Mesopotamia to Medieveal Christianity, the celestial realm had been associated with the divine.2010 November 18, “The Enchanting Heavens”, in Anna-Teresa Tymieniecka, Attila Grandpierre, editors, Astronomy and Civilization in the New…. From the entry medieveal
• With cheap quartz watches (several, for reliability) we can do all the modern celestial navigation we could want.2007, John Karl, “Lunar Distance Sights”, in Celestial Navigation in the GPS Age, Arcata, Calif.: Paradise Cay Publications; Wichita…. From the entry lunar
• Yet strictly we should all be teapot agnostics: we cannot prove, for sure, that there is no celestial teapot.2006 September 18, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Boston: Houghton Mifflin, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 52. From the entry for sure
• Most of their subjects, were traditional: celestial navigation, ocean canoeing, fish and seabirds, ancient myths and biblical tales.1997 September/October, Melinda Lewis-Matravers, “Dancing the Story”, in Islands, volume 17, number 5, Santa Barbara: Islands Pub. Co.…. From the entry Atafuan
• God, we will see, will be pure entelechy (and just as the other movent Intelligences of the celestial spheres).1990, Giovanni Reale with John R. Catan, ed. and transl., A History of Ancient Philosophy: II. Plato and Aristotle, Albany, N.Y.: State…. From the entry entelechy
• ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS in astronomy is the (sometimes) seemingly interminable waits between some of the more beautiful celestial phenomena.1990, Connecticut Environment, Connecticut. Department of Environmental Protection, page 23. From the entry supermeteor
• This is a new type of emperor; he is self-identified with the divinity, his celestial virtues legitimizing his power.1981, Jiří Frel, Roman Portraits in the J. Paul Getty Museum, page 112. From the entry self-identify
• Celestial asked for a screwdriver and the bartender poured a good four fingers of Smirnoff into a flimsy cup before opening a can of juice.2018, Tayari Jones, An American Marriage, Oneworld Publications, page 154. From the entry screwdriver
• It treats authority as being ultimately celestial, and it dispenses with the concept of the Mother as tellurian and conditioned by the earthly element.1983, Burr Cartwright Brundage, “The Goddesses”, in The Fifth Sun: Aztec Gods, Aztec World (The Texas Pan American Series), Austin, Tex.…. From the entry tellurian
• The race of the celestial gods, superhumanized through their majesty and power, was never in Hellenic belief far removed from the race of living men.1924, Herbert Weir Smyth, “I. Introduction”, in Aeschylean Tragedy, page 24. From the entry superhumanize
• Rapidly rotating dead stars, pulsars are so named because as they spin, they release beams of electromagnetic radiation across space that appear to pulse like celestial lighthouses.2023 August 30, Ashley Strickland, “Astronomers solve the puzzle of an unusual pulsing dead star”, in CNN. From the entry pulse
• Saeed straightened and held up his phone, directing its camera at the heavens, consulting an application that indicated the names of celestial bodies he did not know.2017, Mohsin Hamid, Exit West, Hamish Hamilton, page 15. From the entry application
• We find that motion near the surface of an irregular asteroid is quite different from the motion near the surface of a homoplastically spheroidal celestial body.2015, Yu Jiang, Hexi Baoyin, Hengnian Li, “Periodic Motion near the Surface of Asteroids”, in Astrophysics and Space Science, volume 2015. From the entry homoplastically
• Latitude could be fixed by the relationship to the North Star or the sun, one of the few things known in the sixteenth century about celestial navigation.1997, Mark Kurlansky, “Chapter 4: 1620: The Rock and the Cod”, in Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World, Walker, →ISBN. From the entry sun
• Hasidism, insofar as it was new—and not all of Hasidism was "new" in this sense—rejected the older hierarchies of celestial palaces, of Intelligences, of hypostases, of sefirot.1982, David R. Blumenthal, Understanding Jewish Mysticism, volume II, page 195. From the entry insofar as
• And the like tremendous color in celestial phenomena would revive also inherited terror related of old to ideas of the portentous and of the wrath of gods.1917, Lafcadio Hearn, Exotics and Retrospectives, Little, Brown, and Company, page 256. From the entry overglow
• This Jones he was the biggest liar In all that country, all aroun' ; And by the high celestial choir, The liars there was hard to down,—In Scrambletown.1903, Charles August Fisher, The Minstrel with the Selfsame Song: And Other Poems, page 116. From the entry hummer

Meaning of celestial

1. adjective Of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible.
2. adjective Of a nose: upturned, as if towards the sky.
3. adjective Of or relating to China; Chinese.

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How do you use celestial in a sentence?

Celestial is used as an adjective, adverb and noun. For example: “Historically, trigonometry has been applied in areas such as geodesy, surveying, celestial mechanics and navigation.”

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“For the celestials communicate by the psychic dispatch.”

What does celestial mean?

Celestial means of, relating to, or located in the sky or outer space, where the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars are visible.