MEANING
A mechanical model that shows planets moving around the sun.
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- mechanical orrery
- brass orrery
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A brass orrery turned slowly above the professor's desk.
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- orrery
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Singular orrery; plural orreries. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: uncommon.
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