Oort

/ ɔːt /

noun

1. OortJan Hendrick19001992MDutchSCIENCE: astronomer Jan Hendrick. 1900–92, Dutch astronomer, who confirmed (1927) and developed the theory of galactic rotation. He was the first to propose (1950) the existence of a mass of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto (the Oort cloud )

Example Sentences

From Fredericks-Oort they went on to Ommershaus, where is the poor-house and penal colony belonging to the former institution.

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The Dutch scholars, Kuenen and Oort, believe that he wrote none.

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Arachnothera longirostris buttikoferi van Oort: Little Spiderhunter.

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The good rich "widdow" whom he left soon changed her loneliness for the pleasures of married life, this time with Mr. John Oort.

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Van Oort renders it, "He looked for reason, but behold treason; and for right, but behold affright."

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