What is the difference between galactic and galaxy?
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(medicine) Of or pertaining to milk, or the secretion of milk.
Relating to a galaxy.
# (astronomy, specifically) Relating to the Milky Way galaxy.
(figuratively) Enormous (in size or impact).
* 1998 , Mark Lynton, Accidental Journey: A Cambridge Intern's Memory of World War II :
* 1999 , Jonathan Michael Wyndham Slack, Egg & ego: an almost true story of life in the biology lab , page 65:
* 2007 , Jeffrey P. Brown, Black Body Radiation and the Ultraviolet Catastrophe , page 128:
* (rfdate) José D. Roncal, José N. Abbo, The Big Gamble: Are You Investing Or Speculating? , page 94:
* 1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
(galaxy) Any of the collections of many millions of stars, galactic dust, black holes, etc. existing as independent and coherent systems, of which there are billions in the known universe.
Galaxy is a derived term of galactic.
Galaxy is a related term of galactic.
As an adjective galactic
is of or pertaining to milk, or the secretion of milk.As a noun galaxy is
the Milky Way; the apparent band of concentrated stars which appears in the night sky over earth.As a proper noun Galaxy is
the Milky Way Galaxy, from when it was thought the Universe (our universe) had only one galaxy.galactic
English
Adjective
(head)- Galactic acid.
- Galactic astronomy is the study of the Milky Way.
- The policies and decisions to be made were neither very complex nor very numerous, since at that time, the needs and priorities in Germany did not involve issues of galactic impact,
- For a fashion journal, there is a more important and more difficult judgement to make: Is the work of such galactic significance as to be eligible to grace the pages of this magnificent journal?
- “Yes, his heart is one of galactic proportions.”
- The credit crunch became a mess of galactic proportions.
Derived terms
* galactic nucleus * active galactic nucleus * galactic core * galactic halo * galactic armgalaxy
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Noun
(galaxies)- So may thy cheekes red outweare scarlet dye, / And their white, whitenesse of the Galaxie [...].