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Definitions: Delphinus |
DelphinusNoun1. A constellation in the northern hemisphere near Pegasus and Aquila. 2. Type genus of the Delphinidae. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Delphinus" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1835. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Aerospace | See constellation.Abbreviation Del, Dlph. (references) |
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| Delphinus | |
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| Abbreviation | Del |
| Genitive | Delphini |
| Meaning in English | Dolphin |
| Right ascension | 20 h 42 m |
| Declination | 13° 48' |
| Visible to latitude | Between 90° and -70° |
| Best visible | September |
| Area - Total | Ranked 69th 189 sq. deg. |
| Number of stars with apparent magnitude < 3 | 0 |
| Brightest star - Apparent magnitude | Rotanev (β Del) 3.63 |
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Delphinus, the Dolphin, is a rather small (ranked 69th) northern constellation very close to the celestial equator. It was already included in Ptolemy's list of 48 constellations and also forms part of the modern list of 88 constellations approved by the IAU. It looks remarkably like a leaping Dolphin and thus can easily be recognized in the sky. Delphinus is surrounded (clockwise from north) by the little fox Vulpecula, the flying arrow Sagitta, the eagle Aquila, the water carrier Aquarius, the little horse Equuleus and finally the flying horse Pegasus.
Here are some of its stars:
The names of the two brightest stars of this constellation, Sualocin (Alpha Delphini) and Rotanev (Beta Delphini), are not, as one might expect, names dating from Antiquity, but instead are quite new. They first appeared in a star catalogue of 1814 that was published at the Palermo Observatory in Italy. When read backwards they form the name Nicolaus Venator which is the latinized version of the name of the assistant director of that observatory at that time: Niccolo Cacciatore (both Cacciatore and Venator mean hunter).Notable features
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Synonym: DelphinusSynonym: genus Delphinus (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Delphinus |
| English words defined with "Delphinus": Bottle-nose ♦ Delphinus delphis ♦ genus Delphinus. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "Delphinus": Del, Dlph. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "Delphinus": Delphinoid. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Delphinus" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Latin (dolphin). |
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 | Delphinus (Steno) perspicillatus Peters. Observed in the Atlantic Ocean at 32 29 South Latitude, 2 West Longitude. In: "Die Forschungsreise S. M. S. "Gazelle" in den Jahren 1874 bis 1876." P. 322. Plate 9. Library Call Number C/L G373 H.Credit: Treasures of the Library. |  | "Delphinus deductor. Baleana rostrata." In: "An account of the Arctic regions with a history and description of the northern whale-fishery", by W. Scoresby. 1820. P. 588, Vol. II. Plate XIII. Library Call Number G742 .S42 1820 .Credit: Treasures of the Library. |
 | Delphinus, Sagitta, Aquila, and Antinous / Sidy. Hall, sculpt.Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
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| "Delphinus" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Delphinus" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
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Expressions using "Delphinus": delphinus delphis ♦ Delphinus Tursio ♦ genus Delphinus. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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delphinus | 14 |
delphinus delphis | 10 |
constellation delphinus | 6 |
chronicle delphinus | 4 |
delphinus engineering | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "Delphinus"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 海豚座 . (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | いるかざ. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | elphinusday | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-h-i-l-n-p-s-u" | |
-1 letter: punished, sulphide. | |
-2 letters: lineups, lupines, plenish, spindle, spinule, splined, sulphid, unpiled, unpiles. | |
-3 letters: dispel, indues, lineup, lisped, lunies, lupine, lupins, lushed, nudies, pensil, pileus, pished, puisne, pulsed, punish, pushed, sendup, shield, shined, sliped, sniped, spiled, spined, spinel, spline, supine, undies, unpile, unshed, unship, upends, upheld, upsend, upside. | |
-4 letters: deils, delis, dines, duels, dulse, dunes, dupes, duple, heils, helps, hides, hilus, hinds, idles, ileus, indue, isled, lends, lenis, leuds, liens, lieus, lined, lines, ludes, lunes, lupin, nides, nidus, nudes, nudie, peins, pends, penis, piled, piles, pilus, pined, pines, plied, plies, plush, pseud, puled, pules, pulis, pulse, shend, shied, shiel, shine, shlep, shuln, sidle, siped, slide, slipe, slued, snide, snipe, speil, spend, spied, spiel, spile, spine, spued, unhip, unled, upend. | |
-5 letters: deil, deli, dels, deni, dens, diel, dies, dine, dins, dips, dish, duel, dues, dune, duns, dupe, dups, edhs, elds, elhi, ends, heil, held, help, hens, hide, hied, hies, hind, hins, hips, hisn, hued, hues, huns, ides, idle, isle, leis, lend, lens, leud, lids, lied, lien, lies, lieu, line, lins, lipe, lips, lisp, lude, lues, lune, lush, nide, nils, nips, nude, peds, pehs, pein, pend, pens, phis, pied, pies, pile, pine, pins, pish, pled, plie, plus, puds, pule, puli, puls, puns, push, send, shed, shin, ship, shul, shun, side, sild, sine, sinh, sipe, sled, slid, slip, slue, sned, snip, sped, spin, spud, spue, spun, sued, supe, unde, used. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-h-i-l-n-p-s-u" | |
+1 letter: unpolished. | |
+2 letters: delphiniums, unpublished. | |
+4 letters: prescheduling. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 65 6C 70 68 69 6E 75 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. . .-.. .--. .... .. -. ..- ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100101 01101100 01110000 01101000 01101001 01101110 01110101 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D e l p h i n u s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0065 006C 0070 0068 0069 006E 0075 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)387178827475808785 |
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