Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to Neptune, the god of the sea, or to the ocean or sea itself.
- In geology, formed by water or in its presence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
- adjective (Geol.) Formed by water or aqueous solution.
- adjective (Ethnol.) the Malay and Polynesian races.
- adjective (Geol.) the theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the
Plutonic theory. - proper noun (Geol.) One who adopts the Neptunian theory.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of the
Neptune ofGreek mythology - adjective astronomy Of or pertaining to Neptune, the eighth
planet of theSolar System - adjective geology Formed by the action of
water - adjective physics Pertaining to the element
neptunium - noun science fiction An
inhabitant of the planetNeptune .
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Examples
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The objects within the Kuiper belt, together with the members of the scattered disc and any potential Hills cloud or Oort cloud objects, are collectively referred to as trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs).
Planet-x.com.au » Worlds largest free store of University essays: To user … 2010
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Mercurio D. Rivera's "In the Harsh Glow of its Incandescent Beauty" is a captivating story of revenge on the Neptunian moon of Triton.
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Now would be a perfect chance to get the kids excited about Kuiper Belt and Trans-Neptunian Objects, and maybe the whole celestial object naming business.
Planet-x.com.au » 29.04.10-Name a Minor Planet! : Astro Guyz 2010
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Thus astrologers with a dominant Neptune or Uranus tend to attract Neptunian or Uranian subjects respectively.
Vivian Rising Daniella Brodsky 2010
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The Objects of this region are sometimes referred to as Trans-Neptunian Objects.
Planet-x.com.au » The Kuiper Belt is Like an Asteroid Belt Beyond Neptune 2010
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I want to cover the asteroid belt, comets, dwarf planets particularly TNOs or Trans-Neptunian Objects and interplanetary dust.
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From this, I assume that you are a green space alien from Venus made of cheese blown out of the nostril of a Neptunian writing this by focusing your brain waves through the gravitational field of Sirius.
Science, Non-Science, and Pseudoscience - The Panda's Thumb 2009
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This date in history marks the discovery of what we now refer to as a ‘‘Trans-Neptunian Object’’—Sedna.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – November 13-15, 2009 | Universe Today 2009
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His area of research is anthropology of Neptunian culture, specifically *on* the planet Neptune.
Advanced Interviewing; or, My Favorite Martian Tenured Radical 2009
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The trans-Neptunian objects are members of the solar system like the planets and asteroids, but are too small and distant to have been detected until very recently.
More on the "10th Planet" Edward Willett 2006
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