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JUPITER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
gas giant; Jovian planet (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))
outer planet ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))
superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)
Holonyms ("Jupiter" is a member of...):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
Derivation:
Jovian (of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling the planet Jupiter)
Sense 2
Meaning:
(Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus
Synonyms:
Jove; Jupiter
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)
Domain category:
Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)
Instance hyponyms:
Jupiter Fulgur; Jupiter Fulminator; Lightning Hurler; Jupiter Tonans; Thunderer; Jupiter Pluvius; Rain-giver; Best and Greatest; Jupiter Optimus Maximus; Jupiter Fidius; Protector of Boundaries (an epithet for Jupiter)
Derivation:
Jovian (of or pertaining to or befitting the Roman deity Jupiter)
Context examples:
They also come and go on much shorter timescales compared to similar anticyclones seen on Jupiter; large storms on Jupiter evolve over decades.
(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)
Jupiter's south pole has a new cyclone.
(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)
A familiar ingredient has been hiding in plain sight on the surface of Jupiter's moon Europa.
(Table Salt Compound Spotted on Europa, NASA)
If Mimas possesses an ocean, it would join an exclusive club of "ocean worlds" that includes several moons of Jupiter and two other Saturn moons, Enceladus and Titan.
(Saturn Moon May Hide a 'Fossil' Core or an Ocean, NASA)
It takes enormous amounts of energy, such as in the extreme environments within Jupiter and Saturn, to smash the atoms with enough force to overcome their natural aversion.
(Poisonous Earthly Molecule May Be Sign of Extraterrestrial Life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
It might be related to large collisions taking place more than 300 million years ago in the main asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, the researchers noted.
(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)
But like Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the dark vortices swirl in an anti-cyclonic direction and seem to dredge up material from deeper levels in the ice giant's atmosphere.
(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)
But Jupiter is descending to-day.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Jupiter will enter Capricorn on December 2, 2019, and remain in that sign 12 months, until December 19, 2020.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
“If the water abundance in Jupiter were found to be plentiful as predicted, it would imply that it formed in a different way to the exoplanets we looked at in the current study.”
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
