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OCT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The month following September and preceding November
Synonyms:
Oct; October
Classified under:
Nouns denoting time and temporal relations
Hypernyms ("Oct" is a kind of...):
Gregorian calendar month (a month in the Gregorian calendar)
Meronyms (parts of "Oct"):
Columbus Day; Discovery Day; October 12 (a legal holiday commemorating the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus)
October 24; United Nations Day (a day for celebrating the founding of the United Nations)
mid-October (the middle part of October)
Holonyms ("Oct" is a part of...):
Gregorian calendar; New Style calendar (the solar calendar now in general use, introduced by Gregory XIII in 1582 to correct an error in the Julian calendar by suppressing 10 days, making Oct 5 be called Oct 15, and providing that only centenary years divisible by 400 should be leap years; it was adopted by Great Britain and the American colonies in 1752)
Context examples:
Oceanographic ship Ary Rongel set off Wednesday (Oct. 11) from Rio de Janeiro with 107 crew members to provide support for Brazil’s scientific research projects in Antarctica.
(Brazil ship off to Antarctica for research support, Agência Brasil)
The first known interstellar object to visit our solar system was discovered on Oct. 19, 2017, by the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System 1 Telescope located at the University of Hawaii’s Haleakala Observatory.
('Oumuamua interstellar object was not an alien spacecraft, National Science Foundation)
On Oct. 26, it will pass through the ecliptic plane - the plane in which Earth and the other planets orbit the Sun - from above at roughly a 40-degree angle.
(Newly Discovered Comet Is Likely Interstellar Visitor, NASA)
NASA Astronaut Scott Kelly captured this photo on Oct. 2, 2015, from the International Space Station and wrote on Twitter, Early morning shot of Hurricane Joaquin from space station before reaching Bahamas.
(Hurricane Joaquin From the International Space Station, NASA)
“‘Oct. 4th, rooms 8s., breakfast 2s. 6d., cocktail 1s., lunch 2s. 6d., glass sherry, 8d.’ I see nothing in that.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two NASA and one European spacecraft that obtained the first up-close observations of a comet flyby of Mars on Oct. 19, have gathered new information about the basic properties of the comet's nucleus and directly detected the effects on the Martian atmosphere.
(Mars Spacecraft Reveal Comet Flyby Effects on Martian Atmosphere, NASA)
An exogenous, infectious mouse mammary tumor virus isolated from BALB/cNIV/Crgl mice, thought to be derived from the endogenous low oncogenic mouse mammary tumor virus found in C3Hf mice. (from Cancer Res. 1984 Oct;44(10):4333-6)
(Nodule-Inducing Virus, NCI Thesaurus)
Information from provider and not independently verified by NIH: Cells are positive for cell markers Oct-4, SSEA-4, TRA-1-60, GCTM-2, and alkaline phosphatase activity; Cells are negative for cell marker SSEA-1; Give rise to teratomas containing derivatives of three germ layers in SCID mice; Differentiate in vitro into extraembryonic and somatic cell lineages; Neural progenitor cells may be isolated from differentiating ES cell cultures and induced to form mature neurons; Available for distribution.
(ES01, NCI Thesaurus)
It was discovered on Oct. 13 by observers at the Mount Lemmon Survey, an element of the NASA-funded Catalina Sky Survey in Tucson, Arizona. 2016 TB57 is a rather small asteroid — about 50 to 115 feet (16 to 36 meters) in size — that will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31 at just beyond five times the distance of the moon.
(The 2016 TB57 asteroid will come closest to Earth on Oct. 31, NASA)
Asteroid TC4's closest approach to Earth will be over Antarctica at 1:42 AM EDT on Oct. 12 (10:42 p.m. PDT on Oct. 11).
(Asteroid Tracking Network Observes Close Approach, NASA)
