planetary
/ˈplanɪt(ə)ri
/adjective
1Relating or belonging to a planet or planets: a planetary system the laws of planetary motion...
- The Universe has its own heavenly sounds, such as pulsars, planetary magnetospheres and solar winds.
- Jupiter is the largest of our nine planets, containing two-thirds of the planetary mass of our Solar System.
- In 1954 he developed his work on dynamical systems in relation to planetary motion.
1.1Relating to the earth as a planet: planetary air pollution and climatic change...
- What are the odds of one of these things hitting the planet Earth and causing planetary devastation?
- On behalf of all of us who work together for the good of the whole we urge the planetary members of the Earth to be on high alert.
- The story is that huge earthquakes are ripping earth apart, and a planetary evacuation needs to be set underway.
Origin
Late 16th century: from late Latin planetarius 'relating to the planets' (recorded only as a noun meaning 'astrologer'), from planeta 'planet'.
Rhymes
- Parisian cloth
- Parisianisation
- Parisianised
- Parisianism
- Parisianization
- Parisianize
- Parisianized
- Parisianly
- Parisian massacre
- Parisian matins
- Parisian pattern
- Parisian stitch
- wire-cut brick
- wire cutter
- wire-cutting
- wired
- wire dancer
- wire-dancing
- wired-in
- wire door
- wire-draw
- wire-drawer
- wire edge
- wire-edged
- wire entanglement