(countable) A surname. / A city, the county seat of McKinley County, New Mexico, United States.

The process by which a large galaxy, through tidal gravitational interactions with a companion, merges with that companion, resulting in a larger, often irregular galaxy.

Synonym of spiral galaxy

(printing, obsolete) A sliding false bottom to a large galley.

(geography) A city in Turkey, the former Byzantine Callipolis. / (geography) Short for the Gallipoli Peninsula, a peninsula in Turkey north of the Dardanelles between the Aegean and Marmara seas.

pertaining to the Milky Way Galaxy

A thermometer made of a sealed glass cylinder containing a clear liquid and several glass vessels of varying densities. As temperature changes, the individual floats rise or fall in proportion to their respective density.

An elongated swollen or tuberous gall on the branches of the grapevine, caused by a small reddish-brown weevil (Ampeloglypter sesostris) whose larvae inhabit the galls.

A large yellowish green gall, somewhat tinged with red, consisting of a mass of irregular swellings on the stems and leaves of grapevines, produced by the larva of a small two-winged fly (Lasioptera vitis).

blende