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What does Polaris mean?

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  1. (astronomy) The pole star, a trinary star in the constellation Ursa Minor that currently lies close to the north celestial pole; Alpha (α) Ursae Minoris
  2. A type of U.S. ballistic missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and designed to be launched from a submarine.
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Because of this, the North Pole points and particle emissions are intercepted by the toward Polaris, also called the North Star and Earth.
Each Polaris A-1 carried a warhead of one megaton and had a range of 1,400 miles.
Larry Kramer is senior adviser at Polaris Venture Partners, a venture-capital firm.
Several Polaris ATV models are used as farming and hunting quads but they are also reliable as a fast, racy, motocross style vehicle.
The youngsters are revving up the engines of Polaris snowmobiles retrofitted with wheels, anticipating a race to third base.
We said earlier that the end of a pointer, pointing at Polaris, casts a shadow that moves round a circle on a disk parallel to the equator of the Earth.

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