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jovian
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In science fiction , a Jovian is an inhabitant of the planet Jupiter .
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. (alternative form of Jovian English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jovian \Jo"vi*an\, prop. a. Of or pertaining to Jove, or Jupiter (either the deity or the planet).
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "of Jove," from Latin Jovis (see Jove ) + -ian . Meaning "of the planet Jupiter" is recorded from 1794. Latin Jovianus was a masculine proper name.
Usage examples of jovian.
The lunar colonies boasted a population of over 7 million, with a couple of million more living on orbitals scattered across cislunar space, yet Mars was still a frontier of only a few hundred thousand residents, and even fewer lived on the Jovian moons.
What are the sources of the decameter radio emission on Jupiter, each less than 100 kilometers across, fixed on the Jovian surface, which intermittently radiate to space?
From the intensity of the decimeter and decameter emission, astronomers also calculated what the energies and fluxes of electrons and protons in the Jovian magneto-sphere might be.
Jovian decameter emission are reminiscent of the properties of pulsars.
The overhead screen depicted the Alnitak region, the vast roiling clouds, the dark mass of the Horsehead, the brilliant nebulosity NGC2024, the giant star itself, and the sweeping rings of the Jovian world.
Lack of maneuverability and a densely packed body type that gave it less vertical range through the Jovian atmosphere than Raimey had.
Captain Yargoul of the Jovian Battle Cruiser Windstorm to Captain Crisper of the Plutonian Battle Cruiser Dragon.
Brazil was buttoned into his boarding capsule, melded with the machine into a semi-robot that along with a swarm of others like it had been fired out of the flagship into the sunlit vacuum of six hundred kilometers altitude above the Ringwall, where it now clung, a leech among other leeches, to the huge hull of the Jovian ship.
Jovians on their ship had behaved like relatively sane people, talking calmly if a bit unreasonably to the three Space Force ships confronting them, while the four of them rode together in formation around the planet, leaving the dawn terminator behind them and keeping the Ringwall below.
Jovian hostel at which he was staying, Bor Nica, a Sagittarian, brushed against another guest, an Antarean.
Notwithstanding their services, their fatigues, and the approach of winter, the timid and impatient Jovian allowed only, to the men and horses, a respite of six weeks.
On the second day after the battle, the domestic guards, the Jovians and Herculians, and the remaining troops, which composed near two thirds of the whole army, were securely wafted over the Tigris.
He would have gone as a quartermaster or a tubeman, and he knew the traffic about the Jovian planets was heavy.
The strongest recommendation of Jovian was the merit of his father, Count Varronian, who enjoyed, in honorable retirement, the fruit of his long services.
There would also be a custom-made system of bioengineered organs that would synthesize nutrients from the Jovian atmosphere to support that part.