Word Finder - corona

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The luminous plasma atmosphere of the Sun or other star, extending millions of kilometres into space, most easily seen during a total solar eclipse.

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A circle or set of circles visible around a bright celestial object, especially the Sun or the Moon, attributable to an optical phenomenon produced by the diffraction of its light by small water droplets or tiny ice crystals.

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(by extension) Any luminous or crownlike ring around an object or person.

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A luminous appearance caused by corona discharge, often seen as a bluish glow in the air adjacent to pointed metal conductors carrying high voltages.

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The large, flat, projecting member of a cornice which crowns the entablature, situated above the bed moulding and below the cymatium.

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• drip
• larmier

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A large, round pendent chandelier, with spikes around its upper rim to hold candles or lamps, usually hung from the roof of a church.

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• corona lucis

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A crown or garland bestowed among the Romans as a reward for distinguished services.

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Any appendage of an organism that resembles a crown or corona.

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An upper or crownlike portion of certain parts of the body.

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A manifestation of secondary syphilis, consisting of papular lesions along the hairline, often bordering the scalp in the manner of a crown.

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• corona veneris
• crown of Venus

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An oval-shaped astrogeological feature, present on both the planet Venus and Uranus's moon Miranda, probably formed by upwellings of warm material below the surface.

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A mineral zone, consisting of one or more minerals, which surrounds another mineral or lies at the interface of two minerals, typically in a radial arrangement; a reaction rim.

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To surround with a luminous or crownlike ring as if by the solar corona.

A fully developed corona is perhaps the finest form of aurora.

In architecture, the term "corona" is used of that part of a cornice which projects over the bed mould and constitutes the chief protection to the wall from rain; it is always throated, and its soffit rises towards the wall.

These coronagraphs produce images of the " emission line corona.

The corona is very faint relative to the main body of the sun.

A superb image of the sun's corona, captured during the 1999 total eclipse.

When thin clouds scud across a bright moon it is often surrounded by a bright disk and faint colored rings, a lunar corona.

The corona civica, made of oak leaves with acorns, was bestowed on the soldier who in battle saved the life of a Roman citizen.

The source of the solar wind is the Sun 's hot corona.

The titles of these juvenile performances, which were played by amateurs, were Salga por donde saliere, Me voy a Sevilla and La Corona y el Punal.

He proposed in 1715 the "diffractiontheory" of the sun's corona, visited England and was received into the Royal Society in 1724, and left Paris for St Petersburg on a summons from the empress Catherine, towards the end of 1725.

Thus in borage it is rotate, tubular in comfrey, funnel-shaped in hounds-tongue, and salvershaped in alkanet (Anchusa); the throat is often closed by scale-like outgrowths from the corolla, forming the so-called corona.

The flowers are regular, with a perianth springing from above the ovary, tubular below, with spreading segments and a central corona; the six stamens are inserted within the tube.

Outside this again is an envelope of matter of enormous extent and extreme tenuity, whether gaseous or partly minute liquid or solid drops, which is called the corona.

When he took the kingly title in 1130 it became "Prima sedes, corona regis, et regni caput."

In that treatise (c. 15) he approves indeed of the church practice of not fasting on Saturdays and Sundays (as elsewhere, De corona, c. 3, he had expressed his concurrence in the other practice of observing the entire period between Easter and Pentecost as a season of joy); but otherwise he evinces great dissatisfaction with the indifference of the church as to the number, duration and severity of her fasts.'

A singular and unlooked-for result of eclipse-work has been to include the corona within the scope of solar periodicity.

In the 5th century B.C. the Athenian astronomer Euctemon, according to Geminus of Rhodes, compiled a weather calendar in which Aquarius, Aquila, Canis major, Corona, Cygnus, Delphinus, Lyra, Orion, Pegasus, Sagitta and the asterisms Hyades and Pleiades are mentioned, always, however, in re Corvus.

Tycho Brahe, when compiling his catalogue of stars, was unable to observe Lupus, Ara, Corona australis and Piscis australis, on account of the latitude of Uranienburg; and hence these constellations are omitted from his catalogue.

To the right of Hercules lie the arc of stars making up Corona Borealis and then Bootes with its bright star Arcturus.

Three rings surround the central aureole of this lunar corona imaged by Lauri Kangas (site) on 31st January 2004.

Therefore, only a small fraction of the total energy out put from solar is required to heat the corona.

An introduction for a long tradition of observing the solar corona especially in the X-ray wavelength band is given in this work.

But, anything shorter than 400mm will fail to show the corona and other phenomena.

We know that during a total eclipse of the sun the moon is surrounded by a luminous corona.

The solar corona is hotter than a million degrees Celsius The Sun is our nearest star.

The hot corona is heated by the magnetic field.

A white light corona is the sum of all the coronae contributions from each spectral color.

Group 11 Changing Colors pure white perianth with pale lemon-yellow shades & white then pale pink corona.

The best forms of poeticus ornatus have been crossed with the bunch-flowered Tazettas, and have resulted in producing varieties with large trusses of exquisite flowers more or less resembling the ornatus parents, and varying in colour from the purest white to yellow, the rim of the corona being in most cases conspicuously and charmingly coloured with red or crimson.

Their point of view was better expressed in the scruples of priests, who, as Tertullian (c. 200) records (De Corona, iii.), were careful lest a crumb of the bread or a drop of the wine should fall on the ground, and by such incidents the body of Christ be harassed and attacked!

The large circular chandelier suspended in churches, of which the finest example is that given by Barbarossa to Aix-la-Chapelle, is often called a corona.

Door Deliveries I remember well the day that Corona drinks came upon the scene.

That information enables us to compare stellar coronae with the solar corona.

Most strains of the feline corona virus do not cause illness, but they do cause the cat to develop antibodies.

Primrose Peerless (Hybrid Narcissi Biflorus) - Similar in habit to N. poeticus, but has creamy-white flowers, two on a scape, and the rim of the primrose corona is scariose but colorless (i.e., not purple).

That's why this strategy guide can prove to be very helpful, spanning Bianca Hills all the way to Corona Mountain.

In this species the corona is also very large and prominent, but is more elongated and trumpetshaped, while the other members are regarded as subspecies or varieties of this.

In these the corona is small and shallow as compared with the perianth.

Total solar eclipses let us see the Sun's atmosphere, called the corona, which is normally hidden from our view.

It records light that is emitted by the corona.

By measurements of coronas it is possible to infer the size of the particles to which they are due, an application of considerable interest in the case of natural coronas - the general rule being the larger the corona the smaller the water spherules.

In order to the formation of a well-defined corona it is essential that the particles be exclusively, or preponderatingly, of one size.

The most interesting feature botanically is the "corona" or "cup," which springs from the FIG.

The corona obsidionalis was formed of grass and flowers plucked on the spot and given to the general who conquered a city.

A rotifer may be regarded as typically a hemisphere or half an oblate spheroid or paraboloid with a mouth somewhere on the flat end ("disk" or "corona"), which bears a usually double ciliated ring, the outer zone the "cingulum," and inner the "trochus".

The eyes are refractive globules set in a cup of red pigment traversed by a nerve fibre, and lie on the proximal side of the body, directly on the postero-dorsal surface of the brain, or at a little distance from it, on the neck, often within the circle on the corona, and usually well within the transparent body.

Ploimoidaceae; subconical; corona bilobed; retractile foot absent or ciliated; motile appendages present in two families.

As imperial admiral he commanded several expeditions against the Turks, capturing Corona and Patras, and co-operating with the emperor himself in the capture of Tunis (1535).

It is cruciform, with a central tower, and has an eastern octagon which may have been copied from the corona of Canterbury Cathedral, as Eystein, archbishop of Trondhjem (1160-1188) and an active builder, was in England during his episcopate.

The corona was photographed at Konigsberg during the totality of the 28th of July 1851; similar records of the red prominences, successively obtained by Father Angelo Secchi and Warren de la Rue, as the shadowtrack crossed Spain on the 18th of July 1860, finally demonstrated their solar status.