Synonyms for Planetary
ˈplæn ɪˌtɛr iplan·e·ta·ry

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1. planetaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   global

2. planetaryadjective

   Synonyms:
   epicyclic

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1. planetal, planetaryadjective

   of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets

   "planetary motion"; "planetary year"

   Synonyms:
   wandering, world(a), planetary, world-wide, global, terrestrial, worldwide, erratic, planetal

   Antonyms:
   settled, national

2. planetary, terrestrialadjective

   of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants

   "planetary rumblings and eructations"- L.C.Eiseley ; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"

   Synonyms:
   wandering, sublunary, world(a), planetary, world-wide, global, tellurian, mundane, terrene, terrestrial, worldwide, erratic, telluric, sublunar, planetal

   Antonyms:
   settled, national

3. erratic, planetary, wanderingadjective

   having no fixed course

   "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"

   Synonyms:
   planetal, wandering, winding, nomadic, quicksilver(a), rambling, meandering(a), wandering(a), terrestrial, erratic, peregrine, worldwide, planetary, world-wide, mobile, fickle, temperamental, global, world(a), roving, mercurial

   Antonyms:
   settled, national

4. global, planetary, world(a), worldwide, world-wideadjective

   involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope

   "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"

   Antonyms:
   settled, national

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1. List of paraphrases for "planetary":

   planets, global, planet, planetarium, star

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1. List of known nicknames for "Planetary":

   Planet

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1. Joachim Saur:

   I was always brainstorming how we could use a telescope in other ways, is there a way you could use a telescope to look inside a planetary body? Then I thought, the aurorae! Because aurorae are controlled by the magnetic field, if you observe the aurorae in an appropriate way, you learn something about the magnetic field. If you know the magnetic field, then you know something about the moon's interior.

2. Yun Zhang:

   Most planetary bodies consist of numerous pieces of rock that have coalesced under the influence of gravity. You could imagine them as sandcastles floating in space. Their structure can be disrupted when the force acting on the individual 'sand particle' is larger than their mutual gravity, similar to the ocean tides on Earth, which result from the gravitational pulls of the sun and the moon, in space a planetary body that comes close enough to a star is subjected to the strong gravitational pulls of that star.

3. Kenneth Hansen:

   The New Horizons spacecraft is truly a mission of firsts, and this demonstration of stellar parallax is no different the New Horizons spacecraft continues to speed away from Earth toward interstellar space and is continuing to return exciting new data for planetary science.

4. Amir Siraj:

   Presumably, it was produced by another star, got kicked out of that star's planetary system and just so happened to make its way to our solar system and collide with Earth.

5. Jennifer Burt:

   One of the most intriguing results of the last two decades of exoplanet science is that, thus far, none of the new planetary systems we've discovered look anything like our own solar system, this new planet we've discovered is still weird -- but it's one step closer to being somewhat like our neighborhood planets.