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[ noun ] the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth
Used in print (Jack Kaplan, "The Health Machine Menace: Therapy by...)For that reason , he informed her , the Lord made the sky blue . (Frank Oppenheimer, "Science and Fear-- A Discussion...)Lucretius has remarked : `` The reason why all Mortals are so gripped by fear is that they see all sorts of things happening in the earth and sky with no discernable cause , and these they attribute to the will of God '' . (Cornell H. Mayer, "Radio Emission of the Moon...)The ratio of the measured antenna temperature_change during a drift scan across the moon to the average brightness temperature of the moon over the antenna beam ( assuming that the brightness temperature of the sky is negligible ) was found , by graphical integration of the antenna directivity diagram , to be 0.85 . (Clayton C. Barbeau, The Ikon....)Warren tried to shake_off the jumble of his fears by looking_at the sky . Off in the distance a searchlight flashed on , its beam slashing the sky . Related terms entity celestial_sphere blue_sky mackerel_sky Earth cloud rainbow |
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