orrery

1. 1.

   planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock

   Broaderplanetarium

Other forms of orrery

plural

orreries·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about orrery

What does orrery mean?

orrery means "planetarium consisting of an apparatus that illustrates the relative positions and motions of bodies in the solar system by rotation and revolution of balls moved by wheelwork; sometimes incorporated in a clock".

How many syllables are in orrery?

orrery has 3 syllables: or-re-ry. The stress falls on "or". In IPA it is /ˈɔɹɚi/.

Is orrery a common word?

orrery is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.