Alcor

[ al-kawr ]

Astronomy.

1. a star, the fifth-magnitude companion of Mizar in the handle of the Big Dipper.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Alcor¹

Perhaps < Arabic al-khawr the low ground

Example Sentences

And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.

From Salon

And a smaller quibble: movie also purports in an early scene to show the double star Mizar and Alcor, but the photograph on screen is not of them.

From Salon

Bostrom himself wears a metal buckle around his ankle with instructions for Alcor to "take custody of his body and maintain it in a giant steel bottle flooded with liquid nitrogen" after he dies.

From Salon

But this is a deal compared with the rates at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona.

From Slate

In 2009, Larry Johnson, a former employee of Alcor, alleged in a book that workers in the facility in Arizona had a few years earlier mutilated Ted Williams’ frozen head.

From Slate