disc galaxy
(US disk galaxy) Astronomy
noun
A galaxy in the approximate form of a disc.
- Disc galaxies include lenticular galaxies and spiral ones..
Origin
1960s.
- peise
- peishwa
- Peisistratean
- Peisistratid
- Peisistratus
- peisy
- pejorate
- pejoration
- pejorative
- pejoratively
- aslant
- a slap in the face
- a slap on the back
- a slap on the wrist
- (as) large as life
- asleep
- asleep at the wheel (or switch)
- ASLEF
- AS level
- a slice of life
- a slice of the action
- (as) light as a feather
- (as) like as not
- as likely as not
- a slip of a ——