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The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
Chris Hadfield

Meaning of "solar system" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SOLAR SYSTEM

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Solar system is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SOLAR SYSTEM MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Solar System

The Solar System consists of the Sun and the objects that orbit it, whether they orbit it directly or by orbiting other objects that orbit it directly. Of those objects that orbit the Sun directly, the largest eight are the planets that form the planetary system around it, while the remainder are significantly smaller objects, such as dwarf planets and small Solar System bodies such as comets and asteroids. The Solar System formed 4.6 billion years ago from the gravitational collapse of a giant molecular cloud. The vast majority of the system's mass is in the Sun, with most of the remaining mass contained in Jupiter. The four smaller inner planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars, also called the terrestrial planets, are primarily composed of rock and metal. The four outer planets, called the gas giants, are substantially more massive than the terrestrials. The two largest, Jupiter and Saturn, are composed mainly of hydrogen and helium; the two outermost planets, Uranus and Neptune, are composed largely of substances with relatively high melting points, called ices, such as water, ammonia and methane, and are often referred to separately as "ice giants".

Definition of solar system in the English dictionary

The definition of solar system in the dictionary is the system containing the sun and the bodies held in its gravitational field, including the planets, the dwarf planets, the asteroids, and comets.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SOLAR SYSTEM

solar calendar
solar cell
solar collector
solar conjunction
solar constant
solar day
solar eclipse
solar energy
solar flare
solar furnace
solar heating
solar mass
solar month
solar myth
solar panel
solar plexus
solar power
solar sail
solar wind
solar year

WORDS THAT END LIKE SOLAR SYSTEM

alarm system
audio system
central nervous system
computer system
control system
cooling system
digestive system
ecosystem
heating system
immune system
legal system
nervous system
one-party system
operating system
respiratory system
sound system
stem
subsystem
system
the system
water system

Synonyms and antonyms of solar system in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «solar system» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SOLAR SYSTEM

Find out the translation of solar system to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of solar system from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «solar system» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

太阳系
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

sistema solar
570 millions of speakers

English

solar system
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सौर प्रणाली
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نِظَامٌ شَمْسِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

солнечная система
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

sistema solar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সৌর জগৎ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

système solaire
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Sistem solar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Sonnensystem
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

太陽系
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

태양계
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

sistem tata surya
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hệ mặt trời
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சூரிய குடும்பம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सौर यंत्रणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Güneş Sistemi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

sistema solare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

układ słoneczny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сонячна система
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

sistem solar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηλιακό σύστημα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sonnestelsel
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

solsystem
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

solsystem
5 millions of speakers

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about solar system

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10 QUOTES WITH «SOLAR SYSTEM»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word solar system.
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Greg Bear
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing.
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Benjamin Carson
I've had experiences in my life that leave no doubt in my mind about the fact that God exists. I'm quite willing to debate people who don't think so because I want them to explain to me how did our solar system get so organized and how is the universe so complex and yet well-organized that we can predict 70 years hence when a comet is coming?
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Kalpana Chawla
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system.
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Gordon Gee
I am not a scientist. I have never analyzed the far reaches of the solar system through the lens of a telescope nor scrutinized cancer cells under a microscope.
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Murray Gell-Mann
You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars.
6
Andrea M. Ghez
Proof of the black hole is a tremendous amount of mass inside a very small volume. There's 4 million times the mass of our sun within a region that's comparable to the size of our solar system.
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Chris Hadfield
The world, when you look at it, it just can't be random. I mean, it's so different than the vast emptiness that is everything else, and even all the other planets we've seen, at least in our solar system, none of them even remotely resemble the precious life-giving nature of our own planet.
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Paul Johnson
The planet Earth, though not threatened with destruction by man-made global warming, is by no means indestructible. There are many unpredictable events within our solar system, and still more outside it, that could make Earth uninhabitable by humans.
9
Walter Lang
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork.
10
Thomas Mallon
The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SOLAR SYSTEM»

Discover the use of solar system in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to solar system and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Our Solar System (revised edition)
Award-winning science writer Seymour Simon has teamed up with the Smithsonian Institution on this new, updated edition of his much admired book about the vast and mystifying part of the universe that we live in.
Seymour Simon, 2007
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Solar System Dynamics
This is the first textbook to describe comprehensively the dynamical features of the Solar System and to provide students with all the mathematical tools and physical models they need to understand how it works.
Carl D. Murray, Stanley F. Dermott, 1999
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The Planets in Our Solar System
This book also includes instructions for making your own solar system mobile, and on the new "Find Out More" page learn how to track the moon and visit the best plant web sites.
Franklyn M. Branley, 1998
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Encyclopedia of the Solar System
It stands alone as the definitive work in this field, and will serve as a modern messenger of scientific discovery and provide a look into the future of our solar system.
Tilman Spohn, Doris Breuer, Torrence Johnson, 2014
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An Introduction to the Solar System
An elementary university text about the Solar System for introductory courses in planetary science.
Neil McBride, Iain Gilmour, 2004
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Wonders of the Solar System Text Only
The Sunday Times Bestseller In Wonders of the Solar System – the book of the acclaimed BBC TV series – Professor Brian Cox will take us on a journey of discovery where alien worlds from your imagination become places we can see, feel ...
Professor Brian Cox, Andrew Cohen, 2011
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13 Planets: The Latest View of the Solar System
Profiles each of the planets in Earth's solar system, including Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea, MakeMake, the sun, the Oort cloud, comets, and more.
David A. Aguilar, 2011
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The Solar System
"Describes the Sun, planets, and other objects in the solar system."
Gregory L. Vogt, 2003
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The New Solar System
Discusses the interplanetary explorations of the last quarter century, revealing the new discoveries and findings due to the technological advancements which have enabled man to visit all the planets except Pluto
J. Kelly Beatty, Carolyn Collins Petersen, Andrew Chaikin, 1999
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The Story of the Solar System
The Story of the Solar System explains how our Solar System came into existence, how it has evolved and how it might end billions of years from now.
Mark A. Garlick, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SOLAR SYSTEM»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term solar system is used in the context of the following news items.
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​Passage: The solar system's underdog shines
Still, Neil deGrasse Tyson IS calling Pluto "The King of the Kuiper Belt," a band of strange icy objects at the solar system's far reaches. And it is deeper into that ... «CBS News, Jul 15»
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We've finally added Pluto to the family portrait of the Solar System
Even though Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006, it's still part of the Solar System. It orbits at the very edge of it, in a mysterious zone of icy ... «Business Insider, Jul 15»
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NASA's New Horizons' Pluto mission could change our view of the …
'It's got more moons than the entire inner solar system. ... use a “live” mode to see what New Horizons is doing right now, or preview the flyby of the Pluto System. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
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Elon Musk's Tesla Battery + SolarCity's Solar Systems = Clean …
It's clear that the benefits of a solar battery system goes beyond having electricity after the sun sets or when the power is out. “It is vital that we advance the ... «EcoWatch, May 15»
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The solar system and beyond is awash in water
NASA is exploring our solar system and beyond to understand the workings of the universe, searching for water and life among the stars. Credit: NASA. «Phys.Org, Apr 15»
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Huge ocean confirmed underneath solar system's largest moon
The solar system's largest moon, Ganymede, in orbit around Jupiter, harbors an underground ocean containing more water than all the oceans on Earth. «Science Now, Mar 15»
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Kepler telescope identifies ancient solar system
Studying data from the Kepler telescope, the team, led by the University of Birmingham, found a star orbited by five planets similar in size to Earth. The system ... «BBC News, Jan 15»
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Comet mission could offer clues about the 'origins of us'
"The reason why it's so important to study comets is that they're really the building blocks of the solar system. This is a chance to study primitive materials. It could ... «Computerworld, Nov 14»
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That glass of water you just drank? It was OLDER than the SUN
Scientists believe that a "significant fraction" of water molecules found on this planet are older than Earth, the solar system and even the Sun. According to new ... «Register, Sep 14»
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Big solar storm hitting Earth
These ejections are sometimes associated with solar flares, the most explosive events in the solar system. The sun has released two ejections in the past few ... «CNN, Sep 14»

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