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Miranda1

Pronunciation: /mɪˈrandə/
Astronomy
Definition of Miranda
  • a satellite of Uranus, the eleventh closest to the planet, having a complex terrain of cratered areas and tracts of grooves and ridges, discovered in 1948 (diameter 480 km).

Origin:

named after the daughter of Prospero in Shakespeare's The Tempest

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Definition of Miranda in the US English dictionary
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