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pole star

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polestar

n
a guiding principle, rule, standard, etc

Pole Star

n
(Celestial Objects) the Pole Star the star closest to the N celestial pole at any particular time. At present this is Polaris, but it will eventually be replaced by some other star owing to precession of the earth's axis
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Noun1.Pole Star - the brightest star in Ursa Minorpole star - the brightest star in Ursa Minor; at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper; the northern axis of the earth points toward it
North Star, polar star, Polaris, polestar
Little Bear, Ursa Minor - a constellation outside the zodiac that rotates around the North Star
Little Dipper, Dipper - a cluster of seven stars in Ursa Minor; at the end of the dipper's handle is Polaris
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Translations
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Pole Star

n → stella polare
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"But, dear one," she said, with such spiritual intensity that her eyes were like pole stars, "it is I who wish it.
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In 2003, we found out that diurnal changes in histogram shapes also disappear when alpha-radioactivity is measured with collimators that issue alpha-particle beams directed towards the Pole star. This indicated that histogram shapes depend on a space direction of a process[1, 6].
Synchronous measurements of alpha-decay of [sup.239]Pu carried out at north pole, antarctic, and in puschino confirm that the shapes of the respective histograms depend on the diurnal rotation of the earth and on the direction of the alpha-particle beam

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