Galactic

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Galactic \Ga*lac"tic\, a. [Gr. ? milky, fr. ?, ?, milk. See
     {Galaxy}, and cf. {Lactic}.]
     1. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as, galactic
        acid.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     {Galactic circle} (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens,
        to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms.
        --Herschel.
  
     {Galactic poles}, the poles of the galactic circle.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  galactic
       adj 1: of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky
              Way); "the galactic plane"
       2: inconceivably large [syn: {astronomic}, {astronomical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  106 Moby Thesaurus words for "galactic":
     Cynthian, Gargantuan, all-comprehending, all-comprehensive,
     all-covering, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-filling,
     all-including, all-inclusive, all-pervading, allover,
     amplitudinous, anagalactic, asteroidal, astral, astrologic,
     astrologistic, astrologous, astronomic, astronomical,
     astrophysical, awesome, boundless, bulky, catholic, celestial,
     circumplanetary, cislunar, colossal, cosmic, cosmopolitan,
     country-wide, ecumenic, empyreal, empyrean, enormous, equinoctial,
     extensive, extragalactic, gigantic, global, heaven-wide, heavenly,
     heliacal, huge, immeasurable, immense, infinite, intercosmic,
     international, interplanetary, intersidereal, interstellar,
     king-size, large, lunar, lunary, lunate, lunular, lunulate,
     mammoth, massive, massy, meteoric, meteoritic, monster, monstrous,
     monumental, mountainous, national, nebular, nebulose, nebulous,
     nondenominational, nonsectarian, outsize, overgrown, planetal,
     planetarian, planetary, planetesimal, prodigious, semilunar,
     sidereal, sizable, solar, spacious, sphery, star-spangled,
     star-studded, starry, stellar, stellary, stupendous, terrestrial,
     titanic, total, tremendous, universal, uranic, vast, voluminous,
     weighty, world-wide, zodiacal