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telephone number

analogy noun
The catalog number for an astronomical object.
 
“That's the telephone number there, in case anyone's interested.”
Etymology : Catalog numbers for astronomical objects are often long and hard to memorize, like telephone numbers. No one really memorizes them and you have to go to a database to look them up. From Fr. téléphone, from télé- "far" (see tele-) + phone "sound" and Anglo-Fr. noumbre, from O.Fr. nombre, from L. numerus "a number, quantity". (Etymonline)
Source : AU seminar presentation, October 2010
Last modified: 8 December 2010

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