Meanings
- astronomySynonym of Betelgeuse.
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Thus, to take an example, a concert in Boston can be copresent with a soccer match in Sydney, but not with a soccer match on, say, Alpha Orionis: the present as it is defined relative to the soccer match extends some ninety light minutes into space, and so includes Sydney, but not Alpha Orionis, which is several hundred light years away.
2007, Yuval Dolev, Time and Realism: Metaphysical and Antimetaphysical Perspectives, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 198Synonyms: Betelgeuse
Synonyms & antonyms
proper nounSynonym of Betelgeuse.
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Alpha Orionis. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alpha%20Orionis
“Alpha Orionis.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alpha%20Orionis. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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