Oort

/ (ɔːt) /


noun
  1. Jan Hendrick. 1900–92, Dutch astronomer, who confirmed (1927) and developed the theory of galactic rotation. He was the first to propose (1950) the existence of a mass of comets orbiting the sun far beyond the orbit of Pluto (the Oort cloud)

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How to use Oort in a sentence

  • From Fredericks-Oort they went on to Ommershaus, where is the poor-house and penal colony belonging to the former institution.

  • The Dutch scholars, Kuenen and Oort, believe that he wrote none.

    The Bible | John E. Remsburg
  • Arachnothera longirostris buttikoferi van Oort: Little Spiderhunter.

    Birds from North Borneo | Max C. Thompson
  • The good rich "widdow" whom he left soon changed her loneliness for the pleasures of married life, this time with Mr. John Oort.

    The Old Furniture Book | N. Hudson Moore
  • Van Oort renders it, "He looked for reason, but behold treason; and for right, but behold affright."

    The Expositor's Bible | F. W. Farrar