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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A roughly spherical, densely packed group of thousands to hundreds of thousands of stars that are gravitationally bound to one another and orbit a galaxy. Most known galaxies are orbited by numerous globular clusters.
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- noun astronomy a
spherical star cluster containing thousands to millions ofstars
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