GEMINI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gemini mean? 

• GEMINI (noun)
  The noun GEMINI has 3 senses:

1. (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini

2. a zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic

3. the third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20

  Familiarity information: GEMINI used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GEMINI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Gemini

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Gemini; Twin

Hypernyms ("Gemini" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Domain category:

astrology; star divination (a pseudoscience claiming divination by the positions of the planets and sun and moon)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A zodiacal constellation in the northern hemisphere between Taurus and Cancer on the ecliptic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

constellation (a configuration of stars as seen from the earth)

Meronyms (members of "Gemini"):

Alpha Geminorum; Castor (a multiple star with 6 components; second brightest in Gemini; close to Pollux)

Pollux (the brightest star in Gemini; close to Castor)

Holonyms ("Gemini" is a part of...):

zodiac (a belt-shaped region in the heavens on either side to the ecliptic; divided into 12 constellations or signs for astrological purposes)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The third sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about May 21 to June 20

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Gemini; Gemini the Twins; Twins

Instance hypernyms:

house; mansion; planetary house; sign; sign of the zodiac; star sign ((astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided)

 Context examples 

Few people are as up to date on as wide a variety of topics as you, dear Gemini.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Gemini data, obtained with the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), sampled reflected sunlight from a region immediately above the main visible cloud layer in Uranus' atmosphere.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

It is located about 800 light-years away in the constellation Gemini.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

De Pater discovered a third and even brighter eruption - one of the brightest ever seen on Io - on Aug. 29, using both the Near-Infrared Imager with adaptive optics on the Gemini North telescope on Mauna Kea, and the SpeX near-infrared spectrometer on NASA's nearby Infrared Telescope Facility (IRTF).

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

Gemini is a communication sign, so you may see your column printed or the book you’ve worked hard on published.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

While the lines we were trying to detect were just barely there, we were able to detect them unambiguously thanks to the sensitivity of NIFS on Gemini, combined with the exquisite conditions on Mauna Kea, said lead author Patrick Irwin of the University of Oxford, U.K.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)

Geminga’s name is both a play on the phrase Gemini gamma-ray source and the expression it’s not there — referring to astronomers’ inability to find the object at other energies — in the dialect of Milan, Italy.

(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)

De Kleer used the fortuitous detection of this outburst simultaneously at Gemini and the IRTF to show that the eruption temperature is likely much higher than typical eruption temperatures on Earth today, indicative of a composition of the magma that on Earth only occurred in our planet's formative years, she said.

(A Hellacious Two Weeks on Jupiter's Moon Io, NASA)

In the meantime, before you arrive at the second half, the first date to note will be the full moon in Gemini at 20 degrees on December 11, plus or minus four days.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

A global research team that includes Glenn Orton of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, has spectroscopically dissected the infrared light from Uranus captured by the 26.25-foot (8-meter) Gemini North telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea.

(What Uranus Cloud Tops Have in Common With Rotten Eggs, NASA)