Fornax Definition

fôrnăks
noun
A S constellation between Eridanus and Cetus.
Webster's New World
pronoun

(astronomy) A winter constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a furnace. It lies near the constellation Eridanus.

Wiktionary

(Roman mythology) The Roman goddess of ovens.

Wiktionary

Origin of Fornax

  • Named by the French astronomer Nicolas Louis de Lacaille. Originally called Fornāx Chemica, Latin for "chemical furnace".

    From Wiktionary

  • Latin fornāx furnace, oven gwher- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Fornax Sentence Examples

  • The word is common to all the Romance tongues, appearing in more or less modified forms of the Latin fornax.

  • Research I am currently working on a number of projects concerning extragalactic astronomy, in particular the Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey.

  • At UNSW I started the " Fornax Cluster Spectroscopic Survey " using the 2dF spectrograph on the Anglo-Australian Telescope.

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Words Starting With

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