Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Galactic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way.
{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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (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}]
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