Definition of planet

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Planet (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men..

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Saturnian :: Saturnian (a.) Of or pertaining to the planet Saturn; as, the Saturnian year..
Earth :: Earth (n.) The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place of mortals, in distinction from the dwelling place of spirits..
Planet :: Planet (n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men..
Planetoidal :: Planetoidal (a.) Pertaining to a planetoid.
Sidereal :: Sidereal (a.) Measuring by the apparent motion of the stars; designated, marked out, or accompanied, by a return to the same position in respect to the stars; as, the sidereal revolution of a planet; a sidereal day..
Colligation :: Colligation (n.) That process by which a number of isolated facts are brought under one conception, or summed up in a general proposition, as when Kepler discovered that the various observed positions of the planet Mars were points in an ellipse..
Sphere :: Sphere (n.) Hence, any globe or globular body, especially a celestial one, as the sun, a planet, or the earth..
Ephemeris :: Ephemeris (n.) Any tabular statement of the assigned places of a heavenly body, as a planet or comet, on several successive days..
Planet :: 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..
Orb :: Orb (n.) A spherical body; a globe; especially, one of the celestial spheres; a sun, planet, or star..
Satellite :: Satellite (n.) A secondary planet which revolves about another planet; as, the moon is a satellite of the earth. See Solar system, under Solar..
House :: House (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens, as divided by six circles intersecting at the north and south points of the horizon, used by astrologers in noting the positions of the heavenly bodies, and casting horoscopes or nativities. The houses were regarded as fixed in respect to the horizon, and numbered from the one at the eastern horizon, called the ascendant, first house, or house of life, downward, or in the direction of the earth's revolution, the stars and planets passing through them in
Retrograde :: Retrograde (v. i.) To go in a retrograde direction; to move, or appear to move, backward, as a planet..
Apsis :: Apsis (n.) One of the two points of an orbit, as of a planet or satellite, which are at the greatest and least distance from the central body, corresponding to the aphelion and perihelion of a planet, or to the apogee and perigee of the moon. The more distant is called the higher apsis; the other, the lower apsis; and the line joining them, the line of apsides..
Planet-struck :: Planet-struck (a.) Affected by the influence of planets; blasted.
Ultrazodiacal :: Ultrazodiacal (a.) Outside the zodiac; being in that part of the heavens that is more than eight degrees from the ecliptic; as, ultrazodiacal planets, that is, those planets which in part of their orbits go beyond the zodiac..
Phosphor :: Phosphor (n.) The planet Venus, when appearing as the morning star; Lucifer..
Node :: Node (n.) One of the two points where the orbit of a planet, or comet, intersects the ecliptic, or the orbit of a satellite intersects the plane of the orbit of its primary..
Circumjovial :: Circumjovial (n.) One of the moons or satellites of the planet Jupiter.
Semiquintile :: Semiquintile (n.) An aspect of the planets when distant from each other half of the quintile, or thirty-six degrees..
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