Alpha Centaurian adj.

of or relating to the Alpha Centauri star system or its inhabitants; cf. Centaurian adj.

Demonyms

  • 1934 S. R. Powers et al. This Changing World iii. 49

    From this Alpha Centaurian planet the sun would be seen as a bright star.

  • 1968 H. Harrison Sword & Sorcery in Fantastic Aug. 4/1 page image Harry Harrison

    β€˜Take that you Alpha Centaurian swine!’ Carter Thoris grated through his clenched teeth as…he fired a burning laser beam into the armored thorax of the Captain.

  • 1988 P. Anderson Iron in L. Niven et al. Man-Kzin Wars (1989) v. 48 Poul Anderson bibliography

    The quartermaster was showing her around while Rover moved up the Alpha Centaurian gravity well.

  • 2013 J. W. Garson What Logics Mean xiv. 228

    Alpha Centaurian anthropologists looking at inferential roles alone have no reason to think that our models are referential.

Research requirements

antedating 1934

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