HELIOSPHERE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("heliosphere" is a kind of...):

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

Meronyms (parts of "heliosphere"):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

Holonyms ("heliosphere" is a part of...):

Milky Way; Milky Way Galaxy; Milky Way System (the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky)

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