Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or named after the Portuguese navigator Magellan (Portuguese Fernão de Magalhães), died 1521.
- Pertaining to the region in the vicinity of the Straits of Magellan.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or named from, Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the navigator.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the
navigator .
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Examples
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It shows that you have come from the direction of what we call the Magellanic Clouds.
Objective: Bajor John Peel 2000
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Reached beyond this galaxy, beyond the satellite clusters of stars you call the Magellanic Clouds.
Voyage To The City Of The Dead Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1984
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The signal, which was buried in archived studies of a pair of small nearby galaxies called the Magellanic Clouds, was extremely strong and so oddly skewed that scientists believe it emanated from a cosmic event that took place about three billion light-years from Earth.
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In the colder areas with high rainfall of the south western most parts of the ecoregion a characteristic vegetation specially termed Magellanic moorland or Magellanic tundra extends through the Chilean archipielago to 48ºS.
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They cannot be seen by observers in our latitude, and are known as the Magellanic clouds or the two nubeculæ.
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In these far southern waters we also see what are called the Magellanic Clouds, which lie between Canopus and the South Pole.
Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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On approaching the latitudes of the Falkland Islands, the crew, complaining of cold, received what was called a Magellanic jacket, and a pair of trousers made of a thick woollen stuff called Fearnought.
Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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The people now beginning to complain of cold, each of them received what is called a Magellanic jacket, and a pair of trowsers.
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One such system was already known in a stream of gas called the Magellanic Bridge between the two galaxies.
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One such system was already known in a stream of gas called the Magellanic Bridge between the two galaxies.
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