aurora
Definitions
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Aurora Borealis -
WordNet 3.6
- n Aurora (Roman mythology) goddess of the dawn; counterpart of Greek Eos
- n aurora an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth's magnetic lines of force
- n aurora the first light of day "we got up before dawn","they talked until morning"
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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- Aurora (Bot) A species of crowfoot.
- Aurora The aurora borealis or aurora australis (northern or southern lights).
- Aurora The rise, dawn, or beginning.
- Aurora The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day; the redness of the sky just before the sun rises.
- Aurora (Class. Myth) The Roman personification of the dawn of day; the goddess of the morning. The poets represented her a rising out of the ocean, in a chariot, with rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
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- n aurora The rising light of the morning; the dawn of day, or morning twilight.
- n aurora [capitalized] In Roman mythology, the goddess of the dawn: called Eos by the Greeks. The poets represented her as rising out of the ocean in a chariot, her rosy fingers dropping gentle dew.
- n aurora The aurora borealis or the aurora australis (the polar lights).
- n aurora A reddish color produced by dyeing with arnotto.
- n aurora In electricity, an electric glow-discharge, appearing at very high voltages and some what resembling the aurora borealis. It first appears as a blue glow at surfaces and especially at points; at higher electric pressures or voltages pink streamers issue, which gradually lengthen with increasing voltage until ultimately a disruptive spark occurs. See electric spark. Also called corona.
- n aurora The length of time elapsing between successive maxima or minima of auroral displays, as the diurnal, the annual, the sun-spot, and the 55-year period. The last is possibly equivalent to 5 sun-spot periods. See auroral periodicity.
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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
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- n Aurora aw-rō′ra the dawn: in poetry, the goddess of dawn
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Etymology
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
L. aurora, for ausosa, akin to Gr. , , dawn, Skr. ushas, and E. east,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Acc. to Curtius, a reduplicated form for ausosa; from a root seen in Sans. ush, to burn; cog. with Gr. ēōs, dawn, hēlios, the sun; Etruscan, Usil, the god of the sun.
Usage
In literature:
Twice at home I remember seeing an attenuated aurora and thinking it wonderful.
"Le Petit Nord" by Anne Elizabeth Caldwell (MacClanahan) Grenfell and Katie Spalding
Isn't it something like our Aurora?
"A Honeymoon in Space" by George Griffith
The sun was bright and glorious, and in no part of the world hitherto visited have I ever seen aurora in such magnificence.
"Russia" by Various
His finest work is the large painting of 'Phoebus and Aurora' in a pavilion of the Rospigliosi Palace at Rome.
"The Old Masters and Their Pictures" by Sarah Tytler
And the colors of the aurora upon the wintry sky!
"Essays on Scandinavian Literature" by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
J. H. SPURGEON, M.D., Aurora, Ark.
"Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured" by Chas. Cluthe & Sons
Were I as radiant as usual, I should be taken for Aurora.
"The Infernal Marriage" by Benjamin Disraeli
MORNING came, and the great majority of the gentlemen rose early as Aurora.
"The Young Duke" by Benjamin Disraeli
Aurora, Latin, morning brightness.
"The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing" by Joseph Triemens
In contrast with the hill land, young groves are making admirable growth on the rich loam about Aurora and McMinnville.
"Walnut Growing in Oregon" by Various
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In poetry:
At which, suddenly
He turned his face upon me with its smile
As if to crush me. "I have read your book,
Aurora."
He turned his face upon me with its smile
As if to crush me. "I have read your book,
Aurora."
"Aurora Leigh: Book Eighth" by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
From out the sea Aurora rose
With none to hail her then;
The sun unhailed, at daylight's close,
In ocean sank again.
With none to hail her then;
The sun unhailed, at daylight's close,
In ocean sank again.
"The Triumph Of Love" by Friedrich von Schiller
Scarce had Aurora backward drawn
The curtains of the night,
Scarce had her choristers awaked
The echoes with delight;
The curtains of the night,
Scarce had her choristers awaked
The echoes with delight;
"A Ballad Of 1812" by Sarah Anne Curzon
De tu balcon las persianas
Cerre ya, porque no entre
El resplandor enojoso
De la aurora, y te despierte ...
--iDuerme!
Cerre ya, porque no entre
El resplandor enojoso
De la aurora, y te despierte ...
--iDuerme!
"Rimas XXVII" by Gustavo Adolfo Becquer
New-startled blush of Flora !
The griefe of pale Aurora,
Who will contest no more ;
Haste, haste, to strowe her floore.
The griefe of pale Aurora,
Who will contest no more ;
Haste, haste, to strowe her floore.
"The Rose" by Richard Lovelace
Like to rosy-born Aurora,
Glowing freshly into view,
When her doubtful foot she ventures
On the first cold morning blue.
Glowing freshly into view,
When her doubtful foot she ventures
On the first cold morning blue.
"Daphne" by George Meredith
In news:
Gold medal effort Photo by Melanie Grossman Dylan Gibson, pictured above throwing the shot, helped lead the Wildcat track team to a second place finish at the Aurora Ice Box Relays last Thursday.
While many Americans are still shocked over the recent killings at a movie theater in Aurora, Colo.
Immaculate Conception School, 510 Oakwood Avenue, East Aurora, NY 14052.
After Aurora theater shooting, Craig Ferguson strikes right tone, Jay Leno doesn't.
Many of the toxic mortgages that swamped bankrupt Lehman Brothers originated at Aurora Loan Services, its Douglas County-based subsidiary.
The father of Rebecca Wingo, 32, confirmed that his daughter died in the Aurora theater shootings in a post on his Facebook page.
A glance at the menu reveals the grand ambition of Aurora Soho.
Jack Nicklaus watches his son, Gary, during the US Amateur at CommonGround Golf Course in Aurora on Monday.
Craig native Jacque Archuleta revisits Century Aurora 16.
This opening by Polar is the second in 2001, following an opening in Aurora CO.
Out of respect for the victims of the midnight-movie shooting in Aurora, Colorado, Warner Bros delayed reporting of its box office numbers until after the weekend so as to avoid celebration in the wake of a tragedy.
Graveside service was Nov 9 at Aurora Cemetery with Bro.
Kelly Cutrone asks, eyeing our waitress at Aurora Soho, a cozy Italian spot not far from the headquarters of her boutique PR and marketing firm, People's Revolution.
An Aurora man was behind the wheel of a Subaru Outback that crossed a double yellow line and collided head-on with another vehicle in Weld County last night, killing himself and the other driver.
She worked as a model and inspector for R&M Kaufman in Aurora, Ill.
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In science:
G´enot et al. investigated the acceleration of electrons in the Earth’s aurora.
Comment on "PIC simulations of circularly polarised Alfv\'en wave phase mixing: A new mechanism for electron acceleration in collisionless plasmas" by Tsiklauri et al
Dezert, editor, “Smarandacheials”, Mathematics Magazine, Aurora, Canada, No. 4/2004; www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/Smarandacheials.htm. F. Smarandache, “Back and Forth k-Factorials”, Arizona State Univ., Special Collections, 1972.
Sequences of Numbers Involved in Unsolved Problems
The South Pole and Dome F lie nearly under the auroral circle, so suffer frequently, whereas Domes A, B & C lie just 6◦ from the geomagnetic South Pole, so that aurorae there generally lie below the horizon.
Astronomy in Antarctica
Aurorae will therefore only impact on a small subset of observations that might be undertaken from Antarctica.
Astronomy in Antarctica
By way of a direct comparison of their impact on an experiment, ASTEP, operating in the optical over the 2008 winter at Dome C (Crouzet et al. 2010), found negligible influence from aurorae on their data set.
Astronomy in Antarctica
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