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Definition of Solar System
1. Noun. The sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field.
Group relationships: Heliosphere
Member holonyms: Earth, Globe, World, Jupiter, Edgeworth-kuiper Belt, Kuiper Belt, Mars, Red Planet, Mercury, Minor Planet, Planetoid, Neptune, Outer Planet, Major Planet, Planet, Pluto, Saturn, Sun, Uranus, Venus
Terms within: Interplanetary Medium
Definition of Solar System
1. Proper noun. The Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it, including the eight planets, their moons, the asteroids(,) and comets. ¹
2. Noun. (defn English) ¹
3. Proper noun. The Solar System; the Sun and all the objects in orbit around it. ¹
4. Noun. Any collection of heavenly bodies including a star or binary star, and any lighter stars, brown dwarfs, planets, and other objects in orbit. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Solar System
1. The group of celestial bodies, including the earth, orbiting around and gravitationally bound by the sun. It includes nine planets, 34 natural satellites, more than 1,000 observed comets, and thousands of lesser bodies known as minor planets (asteroids) and meteoroids. (12 Dec 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Solar System
Literary usage of Solar System
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"Hydrodynamic cosmogonies confined themselves to the solar system; meteoric
cosmogonies made faint ... The parent of the solar system is a spiral nebula. ..."
2. The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine, Moncure Daniel Conway (1896)
"ADVANTAGES OF THE EXISTENCE OF MANY WORLDS IN EACH Solar System. IT is an idea
I have never lost sight of, that all our knowledge of science is derived from ..."
3. The Sun by Charles Greeley Abbot (1911)
"ITS DIMENSIONS THE objects which appear to move among the stars, namely the sun,
planets, minor planets, moons, meteors and comets, compose the solar system ..."
4. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1891)
"THE MOTION OF THE Solar System ix SPACE [BY OSCAR STUMPE]. ... stars which lie
in the region towards which the solar system is moving will, on the whole, ..."
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