Orrery is a mechanic model of the Solar System.
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Orrery
//ˈɔɹ.ə.ɹi//
Synonyms for "orrery" (7 found)
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21 translations across 16 languages.
Arabic
2 entries- أُورُرِي noun (clockwork model)
- أُورُورِي noun (clockwork model)
Bulgarian
1 entries- планетариум noun (clockwork model)
Catalan
1 entries- planetari noun (clockwork model)
Chinese Cantonese
1 entries- 太陽系儀 /太阳系仪 noun (clockwork model)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 太陽系儀 /太阳系仪 noun (clockwork model)
Danish
1 entries- planetarium noun (clockwork model)
Finnish
2 entries- aurinkokuntamalli noun (clockwork model)
- orraario noun (clockwork model)
German
2 entries- Orrery noun (clockwork model)
- Planetenmaschine noun (clockwork model)
Hungarian
3 entries- Orrery-szerkezet noun (clockwork model)
- mechanikus naprendszermodell noun (clockwork model)
- planetárium noun (clockwork model)
Irish
1 entries- oraire noun (clockwork model)
Japanese
1 entries- 太陽系儀 noun (clockwork model)
Korean
1 entries- 태양계의 noun (clockwork model)
Polish
1 entries- tellurium noun (clockwork model)
Russian
1 entries- планетарий noun (clockwork model)
Spanish
1 entries- planetario noun (clockwork model)
Swedish
1 entries- planetarium noun (clockwork model)
Sample sentences
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His mechanical ingenuity has also been displayed in the construction of an orrery consisting of at least 1,000 wheels, which, by a single winch, turns all the planets in their respective periods, and also the whole of the satellites.
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In the mean time I have another trouble to give you, if you will oblige me in it; and that is to get me a sight of the famous Orrery, which I have heard you and others so often speak of; and which I think was made by Mr. Rowley, the famous Mathematical Instrument-Maker.
Source: wiktionary
To conclude; the Candor and Forgiveness of the Reader is here entreated for Errors or Imperfections he possibly may discover in the following pages, as they are the production of one, whose engagements in business will admit but a small portion of time for an endeavor to explain the most conspicuous, and interesting phenomena of the Heavenly Bodies, by his new portable Orrey.
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