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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Galactic \Ga*lac"tic\, a. [Gr. ? milky, fr ?, ?, milk. See {Galaxy}, and cf {Lactic}.] 1. Of or pertaining to milk; got from milk; as galactic acid. 2. Of or pertaining to the galaxy or Milky Way {Galactic circle} (Astron.), the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms. --Herschel. {Galactic poles}, the poles of the galactic circle. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: galactic adj 1: of or relating to a galaxy (especially our galaxy the Milky Way); "the galactic plane" 2: inconceivably large [syn: {astronomic}, {astronomical}]
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