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PANCAKE-LIKE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pancake-like mean?
• PANCAKE-LIKE (adjective)
The adjective PANCAKE-LIKE has 1 sense:
1. resembling a pancake in shape
Familiarity information: PANCAKE-LIKE used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Resembling a pancake in shape
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Context examples
An open question is whether there is a difference in the frequency of planets in the Milky Way's central bulge compared to its disk, the pancake-like region surrounding the bulge.
('Iceball' Planet Discovered Through Microlensing, NASA)
But these orbits also are tilted the same way, about 30 degrees "downward" compared to the pancake-like plane within which the planets orbit the sun.
(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)
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