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HELIAC
heliacal, heliac
(adjective) pertaining to or near the sun; especially the first rising of a star after and last setting before its invisibility owing to its conjunction with the sun; “the heliacal rising of the Dog Star”; “the heliacal or Sothic year is determined by the heliacal rising of Sothis (the Egyptian name for the Dog Star)”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology 1
Adjective
heliac (not comparable)
Alternative form of heliacal
Etymology 2
Short for helical accelerator.
Noun
heliac (plural heliacs)
A stellarator in which the magnetic axis (and plasma) follows a helical path to form a toroidal helix rather than a simple ring shape.
Anagrams
• Lachie, alchie
Source: Wiktionary
He"li*ac, a.
Definition: Heliacal.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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LININ
(noun) an obsolete term for the network of viscous material in the cell nucleus on which the chromatin granules were thought to be suspended
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