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5 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Astral \As"tral\, a. 1. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to an aster; as astral rays; astral sphere. 2. (Theosophy) Consisting of belonging to or designating, a kind of supersensible substance alleged to be next above the tangible world in refinement; as astral spirits; astral bodies of persons; astral current. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Astral \As"tral\, a. [L. astralis fr astrum star, Gr ?: cf F. astral. See {Star}.] Pertaining to coming from or resembling, the stars; starry; starlike. Shines only with an astral luster. --I. Taylor. Some astral forms I must invoke by prayer. --Dryden. {Astral lamp}, an Argand lamp so constructed that no shadow is cast upon the table by the flattened ring-shaped reservoir in which the oil is contained. {Astral spirits}, spirits formerly supposed to live in the heavenly bodies or the a["e]rial regions, and represented in the Middle Ages as fallen angels, spirits of the dead, or spirits originating in fire. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: astral adj : being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars; "an astral body"; "stellar light" [syn: {stellar}] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: AstralA programming language based on {Pascal}, never implemented. ["ASTRAL: A Structured and Unified Approach to Database Design and Manipulation", T. Amble et al in Proc of the Database Architecture Conf, Venice, June 1979]. (2000-01-27) From V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms 13 March 2001 [vera]: ASTRAL Alliance fuer Strategic Token Ring Advancement and Leadership (manufacturer)
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