VIRGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Virgo mean? 

• VIRGO (noun)
  The noun VIRGO has 3 senses:

1. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo

2. a large zodiacal constellation on the equator; between Leo and Libra

3. the sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22

  Familiarity information: VIRGO used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VIRGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Virgo

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Virgin; Virgo

Hypernyms ("Virgo" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Domain category:

astrology; star divination (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A large zodiacal constellation on the equator; between Leo and Libra

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Meronyms (members of "Virgo"):

Spica (the brightest star in Virgo)

Holonyms ("Virgo" is a part of...):

zodiac (a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The sixth sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about August 23 to September 22

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Virgin; Virgo; Virgo the Virgin

Instance hypernyms:

house; mansion; planetary house; sign; sign of the zodiac; star sign ((astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided)

 Context examples 

Travel is very likely at the full moon, March 9 in Virgo 20 degrees.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The detection by the LIGO Scientific Collaboration (LSC) and the Virgo collaboration is the first confirmed gravitational wave signal recorded by the Virgo detector.

(LIGO and Virgo observatories jointly detect black hole collision, National Science Foundation)

Located in the constellation Virgo, WASP-39b whips around a quiet, Sun-like star, called WASP-39, once every four days.

(NASA Finds a Large Amount of Water in an Exoplanet's Atmosphere, NASA)

These waves will have lower frequencies than the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and European Virgo gravitational-wave detector can detect.

(Three Black Holes on Collision Course, NASA)

Recently, the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and Virgo gravitational wave detectors have begun to catch ripples in spacetime caused by collisions of black holes in distant galaxies.

(Unpredicted stellar black hole discovered by astronomers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The GW170817 merger was the fifth detection of gravitational waves, made possible thanks to the NSF's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) in the US and the Virgo Interferometer in Italy.

(First identification of a heavy element born from neutron star collision, ESO)

During its first observing campaign, K2 trained its gaze on a patch of sky in the constellation Virgo, measuring the minuscule change in brightness of the distant white dwarf.

(K2 Finds Dead Star Vaporizing a Mini 'Planet', NASA)

Given its size so early in the history of the Universe, Hyperion is expected to evolve into something similar to the immense structures in the local Universe such as the superclusters making up the Sloan Great Wall or the Virgo Supercluster that contains our own galaxy, the Milky Way.

(Largest Galaxy Proto-Supercluster Found, ESO)

Within hours of the initial Fermi detection, LIGO and the Virgo detector at the European Gravitational Observatory near Pisa, Italy, greatly refined the event's position in the sky with additional analysis of gravitational wave data.

(NASA Missions Catch First Light from a Gravitational-Wave Event, NASA)

It finds itself very close to its host star (0.012 AU, around a hundredth of the distance between the Earth and the Sun), which itself is a medium-sized active K dwarf in the Virgo Constellation.

(Mercury Not as Rare as Previously Thought, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)