Mizar
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Mizar
From the Arabic word miʾzar literally, apron
Example Sentences
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And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.
From Salon • May 6, 2023
Mizar is the second star from the outside, on the Big Dipper’s handle, and hiding behind it is its buddy Alcor.
From New York Times • Oct. 29, 2020
Through a telescope, as Riccioli discovered in 1650, Mizar can be seen to have another, closer companion that does orbit it; Mizar is thus a visual binary.
From Textbooks • Oct. 13, 2016
In the 1970s, Henry Smolinski of Oxnard grabbed a Cessna Skymaster wing and attached it to a Ford Pinto and called it the Mizar.
From Chicago Tribune • Apr. 20, 2012
The wise men of our race call the Big Star "Mizar" one of the chariot horses, and the little star "Alcor" or the Rider.
From Woodland Tales by Seton, Ernest Thompson
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