Usually means: Icy body, tail, orbits sun.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. comet: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comet, comet: Wordnik
  7. comet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Comet, comet: Wiktionary
  9. comet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. COMET: Dictionary.com
  13. comet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. comet: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Comet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. comet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. comet: Rhymezone
  19. Comet: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. comet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. comet: Free Dictionary
  22. comet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. comet: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. comet: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BABEL: Computer Oriented Abbreviations and Acronyms (No longer online)
  2. comet: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. COMET: Acronym Finder
  4. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)

Science (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  3. Comet: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  4. Comet: Glossary on Meteor Astronomy
  5. Comet: Extragalactic Astronomy
  6. comet: Nine Planets Glossary

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. comet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. The Comet: A Seattle Lexicon
  3. Comet, The Comet: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)

(Note: See cometary as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (astronomy) A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail.
noun:  A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body.
noun:  Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes.
noun:  The fifth reindeer of Santa Claus.
noun:  (programming) A web application model in which a long-held HTTP request allows a web server to push data to a browser, without the browser explicitly requesting it.

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