Look up: planet

1. planet
   A spherical ball of rock and/or gas that orbits a star. The Earth is a planet. Our solar system has nine planets. These planets are, in order of increasing average distance from the Sun
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2. planet
   [n] - any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system
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3. Planet
   Any large body orbiting a star. A somewhat arbitrary term since there appears to be no defining size that clearly differentiates between a planet or asteriod. For example, Pluto is widely regarded as the ninth planet of the Solar System yet its parameters do not clearly conform to the other eight pl...
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4. Planet
   A large, spherical body.
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5. Planet
   A spherical ball of rock and/or gas that orbits a star. The Earth is a planet. Our solar system has nine planets. These planets are, in order of increasing average distance from the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. See also: Atmosphere, Pole, Prebiotic, Protoplanetary Disc.
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6. planet
   part of a planetary gearing whose axis revolves around the axis of the other gear Category: Mechanical engineering • one of the intermediate gears in an epicyclic gear which messes with both the orbit gear and the sun pinion Category: Transport
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7. Planet
   Plan'et noun [ Middle English planete , French planète , Latin planeta , from Greek ..., and ... a planet; prop. wandering, from ... to wander, from ... a wandering.] 1. (Astron.) A celestial body which revolves about...
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8. planet
   1. <astronomy> 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. ... The term planet was first used to distinguish those stars which ...
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9. planet
   major planet noun (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...
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10. Planet
    • (n.) 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. • (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
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11. planet
    (from Greek plantes, `wanderers`), broadly, any relatively large natural body that revolves in an orbit around the Sun or around some other star and ... [12 related articles]
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12. planet
    planet An astronomical body that orbits a star and does not shine with its own light, especially one of the nine such bodies orbiting the Sun in the solar system.
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13. Planet
    ['An Experiment in Language Design for Distributed Systems', D. Crookes et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(10):957-971 (Oct 1984)].
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14. Planet
    [software] In online media, Planet is a feed aggregator application designed to collect posts from the weblogs of members of an Internet community and display them on a single page. Planet runs on a web server. It creates pages with entries from the original feeds in chronological order, mos...
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15. Planet
    [locomotive] Planet was an early steam locomotive built in 1830 by Robert Stephenson and Company for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway. The ninth locomotive built for the L&MR, it was Stephenson`s next major design change after the Rocket. It was the first locomotive to employ inside cyli...
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16. Planet
    [magazine] Planet is a quarterly cultural and political magazine that looks at Wales from an international perspective, and at the world from the standpoint of Wales. The magazine publishes high-quality writing, artwork and photography by established and emerging figures, and covers subjects...
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17. Planet
    [disambiguation] A planet, in astronomy, is one of a class of celestial bodies that orbit stars. (A dwarf planet is a similar, but officially mutually exclusive, class of body.) Planet or Planets may also refer to: ==As an acronym== ==Computing== ==Magazines and newspapers== ==Music== ==Transport== ==Entertainment== ...
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18. Planet
    HMS Planet (formerly the Barnwell) was a British Bayonet Class boom defence vessel of 530 tons displacement launched in 1938. HMS Planet had a top speed of 11.5 knots and was armed with a 3-inch anti-aircraft gun.
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19. Planet
    Planet is a cultivated variety of potato.
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20. Planet
    A planet (from Greek πλανήτης αστήρ planētēs astēr "wandering star") is a celestial body orbiting a star or stellar remnant that is massive enough to be rounded by its own gravity, is not massive enough to cause thermonuclear fusion, and has cleared its neighbouring region of planet...
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21. Planet
    (1) Any one of the nine primary celestial bodies that orbit the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto. (2) A similar body orbiting another star.
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22. planet
    The Solar System now has 8 classical planets and several known dwarf planets, including Pluto, Ceres, and Eris On Aug. 24, 2006, astronomers at a meeting of the International Astronomical Union (IAU) in Prague agreed upon definitions that would distinguish between classical planets and dwarf pla...
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23. planet
    planet [Gr.,=wanderer], a large nonluminous ball of rock or gas that orbits a star. The term, once limited to any of the eight solid, nonluminous bodies (major planets) that revolve around the sun, has been extended to include similar bodies discovered revolving around other stars. The term is somet...
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24. Planet
    A planet is a heavenly body which orbits a star.
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25. planet
    Celestial body in our Solar System that is in orbit around the Sun, is large enough to be spherical, and which dominates its orbit (sweeping its neighbourhood clear). There are eight planets in the Solar System orbiting the Sun: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune and Uranus. Th...
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