Transcription
-
- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
-
- [rahy-juh l, -guh l]
- /ˈraɪ dʒəl, -gəl/
-
- US Pronunciation
- US IPA
-
- [rahy-juh l, -guh l]
- /ˈraɪ dʒəl, -gəl/
Definitions of rigel word
- noun rigel a first-magnitude star in the constellation Orion. 1
- noun Definition of rigel in Technology A database language? Based on Pascal. Listed by M.P. Atkinson & J.W. Schmidt in a tutorial presented in Zurich, 1989. 1
- noun rigel the brightest star, Beta Orionis, in the constellation Orion: a very luminous and extremely remote bluish-white supergiant, a double star. Visual magnitude: 0.12; spectral type: B8I 0
- noun rigel a supergiant binary star, the brightest star in the constellation Orion: magnitude, 0.14 0
Information block about the term
Origin of rigel
First appearance:
before 1585 One of the 35% oldest English words
First recorded in 1585-95, Rigel is from the Arabic word rijl foot, so called from its position in the left foot of the figure of Orion
Historical Comparancy
Parts of speech for Rigel
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
rigel popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 71% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.
rigel usage trend in Literature
This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerTop questions with rigel
- what type of star is rigel?
- why is rigel blue?
- what does rigel mean?
- what is the approximate absolute magnitude of rigel?
- what is the luminosity of rigel?
- how hot is rigel?
- who named the stars vega and rigel?
- what is the size of rigel?
- how big is rigel?
- what is the absolute magnitude of rigel?
- what is the magnitude of rigel?
- where is rigel?
- what kind of star is rigel?
- what constellation is rigel in?
- what is rigel?