Dactyl

//ˈdæktɪl//

"Dactyl" in a Sentence (4 examples)

Ida was the second asteroid to be observed close-up by a spacecraft, when the Space Probe Galileo took pictures as it flew by on Aug 28, 1993. These pictures showed not only that Ida has a cratered surface, but also that it has a small moon, called Dactyl, which is about 1.6 x 1.2 km in diameter and orbiting 90 km away from the asteroid.

Ida's moon, Dactyl, is probably made from pieces that broke off Ida during an impact.

Now the Bard, glad to get an audience, […] / stuck fast with his first hexameter, / Not one of all whose gouty feet would stir. // But ere the spavin'd dactyls could be spurr'd / Into recitative, in great dismay / Both cherubim and seraphim were heard / To murmur loudly through their long array; […]

—My name is absurd too: Malachi Mulligan, two dactyls. But it has a Hellenic ring, hasn't it?

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