Definition of planet

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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..

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Intramercurial :: Intramercurial (a.) Between the planet Mercury and the sun; -- as, the hypothetical Vulcan is intramercurial..
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..
Ortive :: Ortive (a.) Of or relating to the time or act of rising; eastern; as, the ortive amplitude of a planet..
Jovicentric :: Jovicentric (a.) Revolving around the planet Jupiter; appearing as viewed from Jupiter.
Quincunx :: Quincunx (n.) The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150¡..
Biquintile :: Biquintile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees..
Aberration :: Aberration (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet re
Periodical :: Periodical (a.) Performed in a period, or regular revolution; proceeding in a series of successive circuits; as, the periodical motion of the planets round the sun..
Semisextile :: Semisextile (n.) An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other the twelfth part of a circle, or thirty degrees..
Motion :: Motion (n.) Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east..
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
Decile :: Decile (n.) An aspect or position of two planets, when they are distant from each other a tenth part of the zodiac, or 36¡..
Phase :: Phase (n.) A particular appearance or state in a regularly recurring cycle of changes with respect to quantity of illumination or form of enlightened disk; as, the phases of the moon or planets. See Illust. under Moon..
Trigon :: Trigon (n.) Trine, an aspect of two planets distant 120 degrees from each other..
Siderated :: Siderated (a.) Planet-struck; blasted.
Alineation :: Alineation (n.) Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun..
Saturn :: Saturn (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, next in magnitude to Jupiter, but more remote from the sun. Its diameter is seventy thousand miles, its mean distance from the sun nearly eight hundred and eighty millions of miles, and its year, or periodical revolution round the sun, nearly twenty-nine years and a half. It is surrounded by a remarkable system of rings, and has eight satellites..
Antecedence :: Antecedence (n.) An apparent motion of a planet toward the west; retrogradation.
Epoch :: Epoch (n.) An arbitrary fixed date, for which the elements used in computing the place of a planet, or other heavenly body, at any other date, are given; as, the epoch of Mars; lunar elements for the epoch March 1st, 1860..
Ellipse :: Ellipse (n.) The elliptical orbit of a planet.
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