spiral arm


nounAstronomy.
  1. any of the elongated and curved spiral sections that are connected to the center of a spiral galaxy.

Origin of spiral arm

1
First recorded in 1910–15

Words Nearby spiral arm

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How to use spiral arm in a sentence

  • Tantalus lay far out on a spiral arm, well away from the main stream of traffic that flowed through the galaxy.

    Faithfully Yours | Lou Tabakow
  • Xanabar lays across the spiral arm, a sprawling sphere of influence vast, mighty, solid at the core.

    History Repeats | George Oliver Smith