PLANET
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Meaning no. 1/3 (3 senses as a 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, 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
It's a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color
It's an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train
(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
Any of numerous small celestial bodies that move around the sun
(astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto)
It's an outer gear that revolves about a central sun gear of an epicyclic train
Any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter)
Any of the planets whose orbit lies inside the earth's orbit
Any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit
It's a planet having a compact rocky surface like the Earth's; the four innermost planets in the solar system
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