Definition of Cometic

1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling a comet.

Exact synonyms: Cometary
Partainyms: Comet, Comet
Derivative terms: Comet, Comet

Definition of Cometic

1. a. Relating to a comet.

Definition of Cometic

1. Adjective. Relating to a comet. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cometic

1. pertaining to a comet [adj] - See also: comet

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cometic

comest
comestible
comestibles
comet
comet sign
comet tail sign
cometabolism
cometabolisms
cometaria
cometarium
cometary
cometesimal
cometh
comether
comethers
cometic (current term)
cometlike
cometographer
cometographers
cometographies
cometography
cometology
comets
comeupance
comeupances
comeuppance
comeuppances
comfier
comfiest
comfily

Literary usage of Cometic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1871)
"On the Distribution of cometic Perihelia. By AS DAVIS, B.Á. The hypothesis that those comets whose orbits are undistinguishable from parabolas are moving in ..."

2. The British Quarterly Review by Robert Vaughan, Henry Allon (1869)
"... the other lines denoting the presence of this gas were not exhibited in the cometic spectrum, no conclusion upon the point could be confidently drawn. ..."

3. The Gallery of Nature and Art: Or, a Tour Through Creation and Science by Edward Polehampton, John Mason Good (1818)
"XIII OF SOLAR AGENCY IN THE PRODUCTION OF cometic PHENOMENA. As we are now in a great measure acquainted with the physical construction of the different ..."

4. A Budget of Paradoxes by Augustus De Morgan (1915)
"... joint attraction of the new moon and several planets in the direction of the sun, draws off the gases from the earth, and forms these cometic meteors. ..."

5. The Source and Mode of Solar Energy Throughout the Universe by Isaac Winter Heysinger (1894)
"INTERPRETATION OF cometic PHENOMENA. Now, curiously enough, we have in constant use in our laboratories a little instrument called the electroscope, ..."

6. Solar Energy: Its Source and Mode Throughout the Universe by Isaac Winter Heysinger (1901)
"INTERPRETATION OF cometic PHENOMENA. Now, curiously enough, we have in constant use in our laboratories a little instrument called the electroscope, ..."

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