All 3 Uses
galaxy
in
The Hunt for Red October
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- Naval Air Station, North Island, California The oversized tractor-trailer crept at two miles per hour into the cargo bay of the C-5A Galaxy transport under the watchful eyes of the aircraft's loadmaster, two flight officers, and six naval officers.†
Chpt 9.galaxy = collection of star systems held together by gravity
- He'd flown tanks, helicopters, general cargo, once a whole battalion of troops on his—he thought of the aircraft as his—Galaxy before.†
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- Damn, the Galaxy could do anything!†
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Definitions:
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(1)
(galaxy) a collection of star systems held together by gravity -- for example, our sun is a star whose system includes Earth and the other planets. That star system is a tiny part of the Milky Way galaxy
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)