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.
- proctor's bulldog
- proctorship
- Proctor's order
- Proctor, William Cooper
- proctoscope
- proctoscopy
- proctosigmoidoscope
- proctosigmoidoscopic
- proctosigmoidoscopy
- proctotomy
- proctotrupid
- proctotrupoid
- proctotrypid
- proctotrypoid
- proctress
- procumbency
- procumbent
- procurable
- procuracy
- procural
- procurance
- procuration
- procurational
- procuration fee
- procurative