planetary
terrestrial; global.
Machinery. noting or pertaining to an epicyclic gear train in which a sun gear is linked to one or more planet gears also engaging with an encircling ring gear.
Machinery. a planetary gear train.
Origin of planetary
1Other words from planetary
- non·plan·e·tar·y, adjective
Words Nearby planetary
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use planetary in a sentence
If your main concern is planetary health, plant-based foods are the better choice.
Certain destinations like the moon and Mars have always been at the forefront of planetary scientists’ minds, especially as we’ve learned more about the history of water on both bodies.
We’re living in a golden age of sample return missions | Neel Patel | February 2, 2021 | MIT Technology ReviewCareful crater counting suggests it could be as old as 1 million years, or as youthful as 53,000 years — yesterday, in planetary terms.
Rumbles on Mars Raise Hopes of Underground Magma Flows | Robin George Andrews | February 1, 2021 | Quanta MagazineTwo hundred light years away sits a planetary system unlike any other yet discovered.
These 6 exoplanets somehow orbit their star in perfect rhythm | Charlie Wood | January 27, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThe drive for infinite economic growth is leading to a planetary ecological crisis.
Big Tech’s attention economy can be reformed. Here’s how. | Gideon Lichfield | January 10, 2021 | MIT Technology Review
Some of those plans for planetary defense sound like they were ripped right out of a Michael Bay movie.
U.S.—Russia Tensions Nuke Plans For Real-Life ‘Armageddon’ Asteroid Defense | Asawin Suebsaeng | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe leading neocons competed with each other to come up with the most grandiose vision of Middle East and planetary restructuring.
Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick On How Obama Should Handle the Crisis In Syria | Oliver Stone, Peter Kuznick | October 15, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTHigher incomes lead to greater demand on planetary resources and more interdependence.
“The Martian Chroniclers”Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker A new era in planetary exploration.
The Daily Pic: Michael Benson's planetary art hovers between sci-fi and astronomy.
Being only halfway in control of his own planetary system was no state to be found in by the first interstellar visitors.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeStill, it will be healthier if we push out of this planetary system before someone else pushes in.
Fee of the Frontier | Horace Brown FyfeIn the stages of concentration the planetary nebulæ might well repeat those through which the greater solar mass proceeded.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerIn an orbit made elliptical by the planetary attraction the sun necessarily occupies one of the foci of the ellipse.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate ShalerThe conditions under which this vivifying tide is received have their origin in the planetary motion.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shaler
British Dictionary definitions for planetary
/ (ˈplænɪtərɪ, -trɪ) /
of or relating to a planet
mundane; terrestrial
wandering or erratic
astrology under the influence of one of the planets
(of a gear, esp an epicyclic gear) having an axis that rotates around that of another gear
(of an electron) having an orbit around the nucleus of an atom
a train of planetary gears
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Browse