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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A comet with a period of approximately 76 years. The first comet for which a return to the inner solar system was accurately predicted, it last appeared in 1986.
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[After Edmund Halley.]
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