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Spica   Listen
noun
Spica  n.  (pl. spicae)  
1.
(Med.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
2.
(Astron.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.





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"Spica" Quotes from Famous Books



... velocity of a star in the line of sight at frequent intervals, periodic variations have been found, leading to a belief in motion round an invisible companion. Vogel, in 1889, discovered this in the case of Spica (alpha Virginis), whose period is 4d. 0h. 19m., and the diameter of whose orbit is six million miles. Great numbers of binaries of this type have since then been ...
— History of Astronomy • George Forbes


Words linked to "Spica" :   Virgo, star


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