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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A small, dim galaxy, intermediate in size between a regular galaxy and a globular cluster.

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  • noun astronomy Any galaxy, considerably smaller than the Milky Way, that has only several billions of stars.

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