Peryton

Quick meaning: Peryton is a noun meaning A fictional creature having the head and forelegs of a stag and the wings and hindquarters of a bird.

Meaning

A fictional creature having the head and forelegs of a stag and the wings and hindquarters of a bird.

More Meanings

1. (astronomy) A radio signal which appears to come from outside the galaxy but is actually produced by terrestrial sources.

Example Sentences

Three of these FRBs are factors of >3 narrower than any documented peryton.

The peryton also makes an appearance, in a nod to its inventor, Borges — who compiled his own bestiary, “The Book of Imaginary Beings,” itself supposedly based on a long-lost medieval text.

Then, quite unexpectedly, when I had been staring at them for a long time, the shape of a peryton seemed to spring out as distinctly as if the bird's whole body had been powdered with the dust ground from diamonds.

In this model, the Lorimer burst, which was detected in three adjacent beams of the multibeam receiver, occupies a place between traditional FRB events and traditional peryton events and is believed to have occurred at some distance from the detector close to the Fresnel scale for Parkes, 20 km.

Word Forms

• perytons

Related Words

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