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Oort cloud: Meaning and Definition of
Oort' cloud"
Pronunciation: (ôrt, ōrt), [key]
— Astron. Astron.
- a region of the solar system far beyond the orbit of Pluto in which billions of comets move in nearly circular orbits unless one is pulled into a highly eccentric elliptical orbit by a passing star.
