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messier

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Editorial note

I'm still not crazy about the sediment at the bottom of the cup, and the cleanup is slightly messier.

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A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by:

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noun

A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by:

noun

(astronomy) As a designation, the numbered objects in Messier's catalog are prepended with his surname or the letter M.

noun

Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for messier.

noun

A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by:

noun

(astronomy) As a designation, the numbered objects in Messier's catalog are prepended with his surname or the letter M.

noun

Charles Messier (1730-1817), a French astronomer who between 1774 and 1781 published his Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters, a catalogue of deep-sky objects.

Example sentences

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I'm still not crazy about the sediment at the bottom of the cup, and the cleanup is slightly messier.

2

And a lot of the activity at the Sellafield site is generally from older, messier technologies as well.

3

Where it gets messier is non-financial institution online accounts, but they wouldn't be financially important or time critical.

4

But these days it's the reverse - every release of OS X feels messier and less reliable.

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With the crate SQL syntax it looks like it would be a messier dynamic query generation using string functions?

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The messier your history is the more likely you'll need to retrace your steps (and CI results) at some point.

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Renting/licensing autonomous drones that are flown-by-wire from the manufacturer's data-centre could make things much messier.

8

If their superior doesn't fire them and continues to pay them, then it gets messier but there are channels, albeit slow moving ones.

9

Surface-level, this seems awesome, but I wonder how it works for larger companies with more complex (read: messier) environments.

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It would really make the accounting messier, would I have to split this in separate transactions.

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Really the DoD chart is what the DoD tells itself about how it designs and develops products, but in reality, it's even messier and more confused.

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Perhaps due to instabilities introduced by powerful collisions with other objects, which cause gamma ray bursts, and streams of high-energy electrons as noted with Messier 87.

Quote examples

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These include Magnox reactors [2] which were historically used to create weapons grade Plutonium and are much "messier" than typical commercial power reactors.

2

(It might make things messier for generated TypeScript code though, not sure.) > I wouldn't say this is "tied" to ES6, but rather intends to integrate nicely.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use messier in a sentence?

I'm still not crazy about the sediment at the bottom of the cup, and the cleanup is slightly messier.

What does messier mean?

A surname from French [in turn originating as an occupation], famously held by:

What part of speech is messier?

messier is commonly used as noun.