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Definition of Planetary
1. Adjective. Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets. "Planetary year"
2. Adjective. Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants. "This terrestrial ball"
3. Adjective. Having no fixed course. "A planetary vagabond"
4. Adjective. Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope. "Of worldwide significance"
Similar to: International
Derivative terms: Globe
Definition of Planetary
1. a. Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
Definition of Planetary
1. Adjective. (astronomy) Of, or relating to planets, or the orbital motion of planets. ¹
2. Adjective. Of, or relating to the Earth; terrestrial. ¹
3. Adjective. Of, or relating to the whole Earth; global. ¹
4. Adjective. (context: of a gear train) epicyclic ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Planetary
1. [n -RIES]
Medical Definition of Planetary
1.
1. Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Planetary
Literary usage of Planetary
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)
"Classifying them into diffused, spiral, and planetary nebulae, Herschel considered
them as so many simultaneous exponents of gradual cosmic evolution, ..."
2. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"Historically, planetary protection policy has addressed the concern that the
forward contamination of planetary environments by terrestrial organisms could ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1869)
"REMARKS ON THE SECULAR VARIATIONS or THE planetary ORBITS. By JN Stockwell, of
Brecksville, Ohio. THE secular variations of the elements of the planetary ..."
4. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"It is of the last importance to understand the nature of this kind of motion,
since by it all the machinery »! the planetary system is performed, ..."
5. Life in the Universe: An Assessment of the U.S. and International Programs by Committee On The Origins And E, ebrary, Inc (2003)
"Indeed, for these reasons the planetary science activities today are so ...
Astrobiology has strong intellectual links with the planetary sciences that go ..."
6. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"THE planetary CHANGE GEAR. planetary or epicyclic gear sets were quite extensively
used in automobile transmissions at one time, but have lost much of their ..."
7. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The bearing of the mode of accretion on the direction of planetary rotation.—We
have now reached a point where the hypothesis can be tested. ..."
8. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"The planetary week,3 an institution which has spread 1 Kugler, op. cit., i, ...
3 The history of the planetary week has been treated with exhaustive ..."
9. 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)
"Classifying them into diffused, spiral, and planetary nebulae, Herschel considered
them as so many simultaneous exponents of gradual cosmic evolution, ..."
10. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"Historically, planetary protection policy has addressed the concern that the
forward contamination of planetary environments by terrestrial organisms could ..."
11. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1869)
"REMARKS ON THE SECULAR VARIATIONS or THE planetary ORBITS. By JN Stockwell, of
Brecksville, Ohio. THE secular variations of the elements of the planetary ..."
12. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"It is of the last importance to understand the nature of this kind of motion,
since by it all the machinery »! the planetary system is performed, ..."
13. Life in the Universe: An Assessment of the U.S. and International Programs by Committee On The Origins And E, ebrary, Inc (2003)
"Indeed, for these reasons the planetary science activities today are so ...
Astrobiology has strong intellectual links with the planetary sciences that go ..."
14. The Gasoline Automobile: Its Design and Construction by Peter Martin Heldt (1918)
"THE planetary CHANGE GEAR. planetary or epicyclic gear sets were quite extensively
used in automobile transmissions at one time, but have lost much of their ..."
15. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The bearing of the mode of accretion on the direction of planetary rotation.—We
have now reached a point where the hypothesis can be tested. ..."
16. Rest Days: A Study in Early Law and Morality by Hutton Webster (1916)
"The planetary week,3 an institution which has spread 1 Kugler, op. cit., i, ...
3 The history of the planetary week has been treated with exhaustive ..."
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