mean planet

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noun Astronomy.

a hypothetical planet that coincides with a real planet when the real planet is at perihelion and that moves in an orbit at a constant velocity equal to the mean velocity of the real planet.

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How to use mean planet in a sentence

I mean, physically, mentally, you know, in every way, shape, and form.
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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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What they actually mean by that is, you know, he actually knows some people that are poor.
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What does Bondi mean that clerks now should “determine how to proceed”?
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Hilda, trembling at the door, more than half expected Mr. Orgreave to say: "You mean, she's invited herself."
Hilda Lessways|Arnold Bennett
He wanted to tell her that if she called her father, it would mean the end of everything for them, but he withheld this.
The Homesteader|Oscar Micheaux
It was difficult, with the mean appliances of the time, to wring subsistence from the reluctant earth.
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With Bacon, experientia does not always mean observation; and may mean either experience or experiment.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II)|Henry Osborn Taylor
My husband detests them; on the contrary, I like those carriages, for they tell me of happy—I mean to say, of former times.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various