comet
noun#7,268
Translations
- コメットコメット
- 彗星すいせい
- 赤気せっき
- ほうき星ほうきぼし
English definition
- (astronomy) a relatively small extraterrestrial body consisting of a frozen mass that travels around the sun in a highly elliptical orbit
Examples
- Halley's Comet comes round once every eighty years.
- Halley's Comet will come back in 2061.