Stellar vs Galactic - What's the difference?
stellar | galactic |
(astronomy, notcomp) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars.
Heavenly.
Exceptional; wonderful.
(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:
As adjectives the difference between stellar and galactic
is that stellar is (astronomy|notcomp) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of stars while galactic is pertaining to the milky way galaxy.stellar
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The actress gave a stellar performance.
Derived terms
* stellar nurseryAnagrams
* ----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.
