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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope
Example:
of worldwide significance
Synonyms:
global; planetary; world; world-wide; worldwide
Classified under:
Similar:
international (concerning or belonging to all or at least two or more nations)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Having no fixed course
Example:
a planetary vagabond
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Similar:
unsettled (not settled or established)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets
Example:
planetary year
Synonyms:
planetal; planetary
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Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
planet ((astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction)
Derivation:
planet ((astronomy) any of the nine large celestial bodies in the solar system that revolve around the sun and shine by reflected light; Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in order of their proximity to the sun; viewed from the constellation Hercules, all the planets rotate around the sun in a counterclockwise direction)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants
Example:
this terrestrial ball
Synonyms:
planetary; terrestrial
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
earth (the 3rd planet from the sun; the planet we live on)
Context examples:
The recently discovered planetary mass was originally found in 2016 but was mistaken for a brown dwarf planet.
(Astronomers Discover New Planet Not Orbiting Any Star, VOA)
These results show that different chemical elements can no longer be assumed to be equally abundant in planetary atmospheres, challenging assumptions in several theoretical models.
(Water common – yet scarce – in exoplanets, University of Cambridge)
“We knew that there had to be something exceptional going on in this system, and speculated that it may be related to some type of planetary remnant.”
(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)
There is no way of detecting such planetary systems around a black hole, and so no way to know for sure whether planets of this kind have yet formed.
(Thousands of Planets Could Be Orbiting around Black Holes, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The gravitational pull among the planets creates slight changes to their orbital periods, and from these timing effects planetary masses can be derived.
('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)
This newly discovered huge structure around the system may have implications for what this yet-unseen planetary system looks like around the 8-million-year-old star, which is in its formative years of planet construction.
(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)
The JunoCam imager aboard NASA's Juno mission snapped pics of the most iconic feature of the solar system’s largest planetary inhabitant during its Monday (July 10) flyby.
(NASA’s Juno Spacecraft Spots Jupiter’s Great Red Spot, NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
Vaterite was often associated with outer space and had been detected in planetary objects in the Solar System and meteorites.
(Rare mineral discovered in plants for first time, University of Cambridge)
Planetary astronomers hope to better understand how dark vortices originate, what controls their drifts and oscillations, how they interact with the environment, and how they eventually dissipate.
(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)
The crater's polygonal nature (meaning it resembles a shape made of straight lines) is noteworthy because most craters seen on other planetary bodies, including Earth, are nearly circular.
(New Ceres Images Show Bright Craters, NASA)
