uranometry

English

Etymology

urano- +‎ -metry

Noun

uranometry (countable and uncountable, plural uranometries)

1. (astronomy, uncountable) The measurement of the constellations.
2. (astronomy, countable) A chart or catalogue of fixed stars, especially of stars visible to the naked eye.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “uranometry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)