comet vs giant

comet

noun
  • A celestial phenomenon with the appearance of such a body. 

  • A small Solar System body consisting mainly of volatile ice, dust and particles of rock whose very eccentric solar orbit periodically brings it close enough to the Sun that the ice vaporises to form an atmosphere, or coma, which may be blown by the solar wind to produce a visible tail. 

  • Any of several species of hummingbird found in the Andes. 

giant

noun
  • A mythical human of very great size. 

  • Any of the gigantes, the race of giants in the Greek mythology. 

  • A maneuver involving a full rotation around an axis while fully extended. 

  • A star that is considerably more luminous than a main sequence star of the same temperature (e.g. red giant, blue giant). 

  • A tall species of a particular animal or plant. 

  • A very tall and large person. 

  • A very large organisation. 

  • A person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual. 

  • A jotun. 

  • An Ethernet packet that exceeds the medium's maximum packet size of 1,518 bytes. 

adj
  • Very large. 

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