SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Small Magellanic Cloud mean? 

• SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (noun)
  The noun SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD has 1 sense:

1. the smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere

  Familiarity information: SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SMALL MAGELLANIC CLOUD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The smaller of the two Magellanic Clouds visible from the southern hemisphere

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Hypernyms ("Small Magellanic Cloud" is a kind of...):

Magellanic Cloud (either of two small galaxies orbiting the Milky Way; visible near the south celestial pole)

 Context examples 

It is less than 2,500 light-years across, half the size of the Small Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way.

(NASA's Great Observatories Team Up to Find Magnified and Stretched Image of Distant Galaxy, NASA)

New images from ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile and other telescopes reveal a rich landscape of stars and glowing clouds of gas in one of our closest neighbouring galaxies, the Small Magellanic Cloud.

(Dead Star Circled by Light, ESO)