(n.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See Solar system.
(n.) A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
Example Sentences:
(1) It is a place that occupies two thirds of our planet but very little is known of vast swaths of it.
(2) Two years ago, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change declared Egypt's Nile Delta to be among the top three areas on the planet most vulnerable to a rise in sea levels, and even the most optimistic predictions of global temperature increase will still displace millions of Egyptians from one of the most densely populated regions on earth.
(3) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(4) A planet with conditions that could support life orbits a twin neighbour of the sun visible to the naked eye, scientists have revealed.
(5) For the second, this means identifying greener consumption opportunities that result in a competitive advantage while improving the planet’s natural capital.
(6) Beyond capitalism and socialism: could a new economic approach save the planet?
(7) I salute you.” So clear-fall logging and burning of the tallest flowering forests on the planet, with provision for the dynamiting of trees over 80 metres tall, is an ultimate good in Abbott’s book of ecological wisdom.
(8) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
(9) "The forces of capitalism are squeezing out anything that doesn't focus on extracting as much surplus value as it can from people and the planet.
(10) Venus has a special place in the sun’s family of planets.
(11) On this planet, extinction is the norm – of the 4 billion species ever thought to have evolved, 99% have become extinct.
(12) Plus, unlike planet-screwing fossil fuels, solar could actually be subsidy-free in a few years.
(13) Both groups are served by about 17,000 restaurants, most of them proud of their contribution to what the city believes is the highest-quality and most diverse cuisine on the planet.
(14) It's the first in our planet's history where one species - ours - has Earth's future in its hands, and could jeopardise not only itself, but life's immense potential.
(15) The breathtaking response of the geosphere as the great ice sheets crumbled might be considered as providing little more than an intriguing insight into the prehistoric workings of our world, were it not for the fact that our planet is once again in the throes an extraordinary climatic transformation – this time brought about by human activities.
(16) He is the embodiment of the belief that money and power provide a licence to impose one’s will on others, whether that entitlement is expressed by grabbing women or grabbing the finite resources from a planet on the verge of catastrophic warming.
(17) One would assume that green groups would want to make absolutely sure that the money they have raised in the name of saving the planet is not being invested in the companies whose business model requires cooking said planet, and which have been sabotaging all attempts at serious climate action for more than two decades.
(18) The chancellor was full of jokes at Labour’s expense yesterday: gags about Wallace and Gromit, Emily Thornberry, the arid Red Planet.
(19) There we conclude that growth is indeed an “enemy of the planet” – and of its people.
(20) Friends of the Earth's executive director, Andy Atkins, said: "We can't continue to ignore the stark warnings of the catastrophic consequences of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people across the planet.
Planetary
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.
(a.) Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.
(a.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet.
(a.) Caused by planets.
(a.) Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering.
Example Sentences:
(1) The future of work will be made up of jobs that don’t yet exist within industries and using technologies that are new, in planetary conditions that no human being has ever experienced.
(2) The results indicate that polyamino acids could have been formed thermally under a variety of possible prebiotic atmospheres and on planetary bodies of low atmospheric pressure.
(3) "We just do not know how to recall a planetary-scale technology once it has been released.
(4) As a planetary geologist, the author has analyzed results of the various space missions.
(5) Catalytic properties of aluminosilicates may play a role in the synthesis of biological molecules from simple gaseous molecules commonly found in planetary atmospheres.
(6) Her declaration of planetary rights invests ecosystems with similar legal safeguards to those won by humans after the second world war.
(7) Consideration is given of the mechanism for the formation of some of the products and implications regarding planetary atmosphere chemistry, particularly that of Jupiter, are explored.
(8) Mathematical analysis of acceleration generated by the planetary motion of the apparatus revealed a unique centrifugal force field which promises high retention of the stationary phase in the multilayer coil to perform efficient preparative-scale counter-current chromatography.
(9) After all, two Phobos probes had failed in 1988, plans to launch Phobos-Grunt in 2009 were abandoned very late in the day and Russia has not launched its own planetary mission since 1996 when Mars-96 burnt up over the Pacific and South America after a rocket failure.
(10) Kevin is an astrobiologist and a planetary scientist by trade, and while his primary area of research is the Jovian moon Europa, currently all the excitement at JPL is focused on the red planet.
(11) We and many other civil society organisations have been much better at saying what is wrong with the current system than providing a positive new story about how we can flourish while living within planetary ecological limits.
(12) This calls for a new logic; abundance within planetary boundaries.
(13) In the lateral coil position the retention was found to be affected by the direction of the planetary motion and the head-tail elution mode.
(14) Peter Diamandis, founder of the XPrize and asteroid-mining company Planetary Resources, knows Elon Musk and SpaceX well.
(15) Past transformations that saw planetary temperatures soar took millions of years to occur.
(16) Each method has been shown to potentially reduce temperature on a planetary scale.
(17) I really have no other purpose than to make life interplanetary.” Bill Nye, chief executive officer of the Planetary Society and host of the popular TV show Bill Nye the Science Guy, was in the audience and described the energy of the crowd as “extraordinary”.
(18) "One important outcome of these rankings is the ability to compare exoplanets from best to worst candidates for life," said Abel Méndez, director of the planetary habitability laboratory at the University of Puerto Rico in Arecibo.
(19) What those numbers mean is that our economic system and our planetary system are now at war.
(20) The Mars500 project was designed to assess the reaction of the human mind and body to the stresses of a potential spaceflight to Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.