Jovian planet

[ joh-vee-uhn plan-it ]

/ ˈdʒoʊ vi ən ˈplæn ɪt /

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noun Astronomy.

any of the giant planets in our solar system: all four of these planets were once thought to be gas giants, but since Uranus and Neptune were reclassified as ice giants, some astronomers prefer the designation of Jovian planet for only Jupiter and Saturn.

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Origin of Jovian planet

First recorded in 1870–75

Words nearby Jovian planet

Jouy print, Jove, jovial, joviality, Jovian, Jovian planet, jow, Jowett, jowl, jowly, joy

How to use Jovian planet in a sentence

Andy Serkis, Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Do you want to be on the wrong side of history, Academy?
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In fact, Mexico buys and sells more US goods than any other country on the planet except for Canada.
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Good for her—but what a shameful indictment of Planet Fashion.
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With Batman and Planet of the Apes, you seem to be operating around 15 years ahead of the culture.
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Why was a master photographer recruited to work with one of the most successful liquor brands on the planet?
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Reckoning that Neptune is the outermost planet of the solar system, that system would have a diameter of 5,584 millions of miles.
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Cassini observed, by the position of certain spots, the revolution of the planet Venus on its axis.
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Meadows began to play inner planet combinations that occasionally paid, though at short odds.
Fee of the Frontier|Horace Brown Fyfe
Our poor planet will be but a silent ghost whirling on its dark path in the starlight.
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As the details of this planet are to occupy us during nearly all the remainder of this work, we shall for the present pass it by.
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Scientific definitions for Jovian planet

Jovian planet

[ jō′vē-ən ]

See gas giant.