spiral arm

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English

Noun

spiral arm (plural spiral arms)

  1. (astronomy) A section of a spiral galaxy that coils out from the centre.
    • 1979, Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
      Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun.
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