Planetary
['plænɪt(ə)rɪ] or ['plænətɛri]
Definition
(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants; 'planetary rumblings and eructations'- L.C.Eiseley ; 'the planetary tilt'; 'this terrestrial ball' .
Editor: Myra--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
(a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
(a.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
(a.) Caused by planets.
(a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
Editor: Vanessa
Examples
- Tycho Brahe had a great reverence for Copernicus, but he did not accept his planetary system; and he fe lt that advance in astronomy depended on painstaking observation. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Machines with fine metal card teeth are now largely used for this purpose, and of which the planetary napping machine of Ott, patent No. 344,981, July 6, 1886, is an example. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The ordinary problem in planetary perturbations calls for the determination of the effect on a known orbit exerted by a body of known mass and m otion. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had introduced himself to Adrian, by a request he made to observe some planetary motions from his glass. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Bouvard answered that the idea had occurred to him ; indeed, he had had some correspondence in reference to it in 1829 with Hansen, an authorit y on planetary perturbations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- He had the artist 's feeling for the beauty and harmony, which he divined before he demonstrated, in the number relations of the planetary movements. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Among the great _discoveries_ of the past are the attraction of gravitation, the laws of planetary motion, the circulation of the blood, and velocity of light. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- By Flamsteed, the first Royal Astronomer, were supplied more accurate data for the determination of planetary orbits. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- In 1833 through his influence the reduction of all the planetary observations made at Greenwich from 1750 was undertaken. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Discoveries;--Attraction of Gravitation; Planetary Motions; Circulation of Blood; Velocity of Light. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- How on the ground of these data are we to arrive at the cause of the earliest movements of the planetary system? Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- To Uriel watching the progress of planetary history from the sun, the one result would be just as much of a coincidence as the other. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Ruben