Neptune

['nɛptjun]

Definition

(noun.) a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants; 'the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846'.

(noun.) (Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon.

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(n.) The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.

(n.) The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.

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Definition

n. (Rom. myth.) the god of the sea identified with the Greek Poseidon represented with a trident in his hand: (astron.) the outermost planet of the solar system discovered in 1846.—adj. Neptū′nian pertaining to the sea: (geol.) formed by water: applied to stratified rocks or to those due mainly to the agency of water as opposed to Plutonic or Igneous.—n. Nep′tūnist one who holds the Neptunian theory in geology—also adj.

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