Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
- adjective Of or relating to the earth; terrestrial or earthly.
- adjective Of or affecting the entire world; global.
- adjective Wandering; erratic.
- adjective Being or relating to a gear train consisting of a central gear with an internal ring gear and one or more pinions.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An abbreviation of
planetary nebula . Seenebula . - Of or pertaining to a planet or the planets; consisting of planets: as, planetary motions; planetary inhabitants; the planetary system.
- Having the character attributed to a planet; erratic or wandering.
- In astrology, under the dominion or influence of a planet; produced by or under the influence of planets.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the planets
- adjective Consisting of planets.
- adjective (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
- adjective Caused by planets.
- adjective Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
- adjective the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day.
- adjective a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective astronomy Of, or relating to
planets , or theorbital motion of planets. - adjective Of, or relating to the
Earth ;terrestrial . - adjective Of, or relating to the
whole Earth;global . - adjective of a gear train
epicyclic
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
- adjective of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets
- adjective having no fixed course
- adjective involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
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Examples
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He said he was accepting it on behalf of everyone trying to make a difference on what he calls a planetary emergency.
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Al Gore says everyone should worry about what he calls a planetary emergency.
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He's urging lawmakers right now to act and to act fast to avoid what he calls a planetary emergency.
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Since losing the 2000 presidential race, Gore has spent much of his time traveling the world and lecturing about what he calls a planetary emergency.
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He has also discovered a species of them, which he calls planetary nebulæ, on account of their brightness, and shining with a well defined disk.
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Some of the most bizarre stuff you will ever see in planetary science is associated with ITAR.
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Terraforming, or altering the atmosphere of Mars to make it habitable for humans, via planetary engineering processes, is still being discussed in planetary circles and is the seed to more current discussions of planetary or geo-engineering to reduce the impacts of global warming on our planet.
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Terraforming, or altering the atmosphere of Mars to make it habitable for humans, via planetary engineering processes, is still being discussed in planetary circles and is the seed to more current discussions of planetary or geo-engineering to reduce the impacts of global warming on our planet.
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Such events are called "planetary transits" and most of what we know about the sizes of planets outside the Solar System comes from such transit events.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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Such events are called "planetary transits" and most of what we know about the sizes of planets outside the Solar System comes from such transit events.
SETI Institute: First Planet Orbiting Two Stars Discovered by the NASA Kepler Spacecraft SETI Institute 2011
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