Definitions for orrery

orrery or·rer·y

Spelling: [awr-uh-ree, or-]
IPA: /ˈɔr ə ri, ˈɒr-/

Orrery is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 32 anagrams from letters in orrery (eorrry).

Definitions for orrery

noun

  1. an apparatus for representing the positions, motions, and phases of the planets, satellites, etc., in the solar system.
  2. any of certain similar machines, as a planetarium.

Origin of orrery

First recorded in 1705-15; named after Charles Boyle, Earl of Orrery (1676-1731), for whom it was first made

Examples for orrery

For this service he was rewarded by being created Earl of orrery.

Just as I have my conceptions of a school-globe or of an orrery—by diminution.

The machinery of the heavens is much simpler than that of an orrery.

His countenance, says orrery, could be terribly expressive of the sterner passions.

orrery was the dull member of a family eminent for its talents.

orrery's "Altemira" was not produced till long after his death.

He was the improver of that noble instrument the orrery, which, in honour of him, was called after his name.

In 1786 she married the seventh earl of Cork and orrery, who died in 1798.

The first orrery was constructed by the Earl of orrery (c. 1700).

The incident should figure in his next letter to orrery or to his cousin Taylor.

Word Value for orrery
Scrable

9

Words with friends

8

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