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Definition of Small magellanic cloud
1. Noun. The smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere.
Definition of Small magellanic cloud
1. Proper noun. (galaxy) An irregular galaxy, a satellite of Milky Way. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
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Literary usage of Small magellanic cloud
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Circularby Edward Charles Pickering, Harlow Shapley, Harvard College Observatory by Edward Charles Pickering, Harlow Shapley, Harvard College Observatory (1917)
"PERIODS OF 25 VARIABLE STARS IN THE small magellanic cloud. The following statement
regarding the periods of 25 variable stars in the small magellanic cloud ..."
2. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"Of the ninety-six stars of this type so far discovered, twenty-one are in the
Large Magellanic Cloud, one in the small magellanic cloud, and the remainder ..."
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