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Miranda1

Syllabification: (Mi·ran·da)
Pronunciation: /məˈrandə/
Astronomy
Definition of Miranda
  • a satellite of Uranus, the eleventh closest to the planet, with a diameter of 301 miles (485 km). Discovered in 1948, it is the innermost and smallest of the five major Uranian satellites and has a complex terrain of cratered areas and tracts of grooves and ridges.

Origin:

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

Miranda in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Miranda in the British & World English dictionary