asterisms

Meaning of asterisms

noun
  1. (constellation) An unofficial constellation (small group of stars that forms a visible pattern).
    The Big Dipper, Summer Triangle, and Orion's Belt are asterisms.
  2. A rarely used typographical symbol (⁂, three asterisks arranged in a triangle), used to call attention to a passage or to separate subchapters in a book.
  3. A star-shaped figure exhibited by some crystals by reflected light (as in a star sapphire) or by transmitted light (as in some mica).

Information about asterisms

  • It is a name.
  • The singular form of asterisms is: asterism.
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Hyphenation of asterisms

as-ter-isms

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • asterisms is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Anagrams of asterisms

misassert

Words that rhyme with asterisms

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