orrery 的定义
plural or·rer·ies.
- an apparatus for representing the positions, motions, and phases of the planets, satellites, etc., in the solar system.
- any of certain similar machines, as a planetarium.
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- Among the children were the famous Orrery, and the yet more famous Robert Boyle.
- This came to the ears of the Earl of Orrery, who requested the butlers master to send him to his house, which the latter did.
- You therefore present this orrery to any person, and desire him to choose one of the questions there written.
- These are all placed on a wide plain in a fashion symbolising the Solar System: like an orrery.
- His countenance, says Orrery, could be terribly expressive of the sterner passions.