PLANET
\plˈanɪt], \plˈanɪt], \p_l_ˈa_n_ɪ_t]\
Definitions of PLANET
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
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A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
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A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
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A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
By Noah Webster.
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Heavenly bodies with their own motion among the stars, revolving, in the case of the solar system, around the sun, along the plane of the ecliptic. They are grouped into inner planets and outer planets, based on distance from the sun and common characteristics.
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n. [Latin, Greek] A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity—usually classified as inferior, or those within the orbit of the earth, as Mercury and Venus; and superior, or those beyond the earth's orbit, as Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
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