Galactic circle


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(Astron.) the great circle of the heavens, to which the course of the galaxy most nearly conforms.

See also: Galactic

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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If pyramids represented the premodern and modern eras, then a giant galactic circle represents the eclectic postmodern age.
But it's just 1 percent of the way around the great galactic circle at our distance from the center.