Constellation in a sentence as a noun

Sharing things with friends and family used to be done through a constellation of different services, like blogs and Flickr and email.

Rejsekortet is such an embarrasment to Denmark, my only constellation is that I once had sex with the CEO's daughter.

Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do the work.

In general, though, it's very hard to get the DB to disappear, as there is a constellation of features important to data integrity that you need one way or another.

Mental health is full of '6 out of 10 symptom' checklists; I like to visualize them as 'constellations' rather than clouds, because they exist on their own - we just draw the lines along things that seemed to be clustered.

Using the different azimuths from the GPS constellation you can even build up a 3d representation of the water content on different layers of the atmosphere.

SkyBox was disruptive, attacking issues of cost and recency with a novel, inexpensive satellite constellation.

By 1978, these components were small and reliable enough that missiles pushed constellation after constellation of satellites into orbit.

The whole constellation of scientific publications, grant writing, grant reviews, tenure committees, faculty searches, and dissertation committees revolve around publications.

You have to be bug-for-bug compatible with the Satoshi client implementation, not with the Satoshi client's declared behavior, design intent, or whatever constellation of PDFs and Wiki posts that the Bitcoin community anoints as "the protocol.

There are commercial counterparts to this that are presently in operation, like TanDEM-X, and an order of magnitude improvement on that constellation's capabilities would remain insufficient to track anything particularly interesting beyond the construction over time of large static structures, with a relatively long revisit time.

Constellation definitions

noun

an arrangement of parts or elements; "the outcome depends on the configuration of influences at the time"

See also: configuration

noun

a configuration of stars as seen from the earth