Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A constellation in the Northern Hemisphere near Lacerta and Lyra, containing the star Deneb. Also called Northern Cross, Swan.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The typical genus of the subfamily Cygninæ, formerly conterminous with it, but now including all the white swans, or even restricted to those which have a tubercle on the bill, as the mute swan of Europe, Cygnus olor. C. musicus is the European whooping swan, or hooper. It belongs to the subgenus Olor, as do the two American swans, the whistler, Cygnus (Olor) columbianus, and the trumpeter, Cygnus (Olor) buccinator. See
swan . - n. An ancient northern constellation representing a bird called a swan by Ovid and others, and now always so considered.
Wiktionary
- n. A taxonomic genus within the subfamily Anserinae — swans.
- n. astronomy : A summer constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a swan. It includes the triple star system HD 188753 and the stars Deneb and Albireo.
- n. Greek mythology : A king of the Ligurians and relative of Phaeton who was transformed into a swan and placed in the sky as a constellation.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Astron.) A constellation of the northern hemisphere east of, or following, Lyra; the Swan.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a genus of Anatidae
- n. a constellation in the northern hemisphere between Pegasus and Draco in the Milky Way; contains a black hole
Etymologies
- Latin cygnus ("swan"), from Ancient Greek κύκνος (kyknos, "swan") (Wiktionary)
- Latin cygnus, swan; see cygnet. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The original film was about the crew of the Palomino, a rather bland group of futuristic Earth astronauts who stumble upon a long-lost ship called the Cygnus, which is captained by none other than a raving mad”
“The 1979 original focused on a ship on a deep space mission and its encounter with a lost vessel called the Cygnus, home to a lone scientist in charge of an army of robots (including the hulking red killer Maximilian) who turn out to be the ship's missing crew.”
“I'd call Cygnus hang-glider. :p The last page, I guess it is Orion but something doesn't make sense about it.”
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“Little ones, the kind that form when a single star collapses, have indeed been found: in 1974, British cosmologist Stephen Hawking bet physicist Kip Thorne of the California Institute of Technology a one-year subscription to Penthouse that the collapsed star called Cygnus X-1 would not turn out to be a black hole.”
“The name Cygnus itself is the Latin form of the original Greek word, Κύκνος (”
“The Cygnus was the Great Pyramid of our time and Reinhardt its Cheops.”
“Building and crewing the Cygnus was a helluva achievement, one of mankind's proudest moments.”
“To any space scientist the Cygnus was a dream fulfilled.”
“Recently, light left by passing cosmic rays has been tracked back to a hollow space in a nebula called Cygnus X where many new stars are born, reports a study published in Science.”
“Normal piloting rolls can be made to land the characters 'ship on the Cygnus, which is massive.”
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Constellations
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) recognizes 88 official constellations.
Orion, Taurus, Andromeda, Aquila, Lyra, Boötes, Cygnus, Canis Major, Cassiopeia, Auriga, Lupus, Pyxis and 76 more...
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