The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neptunian \Nep*tu"ni*an\, Neptunist \Nep"tu*nist\, prop. n. [Cf. F. neptinien, neptuniste.] (Geol.) One who adopts the Neptunian theory.
Neptunian \Nep*tu"ni*an\, prop. a. [L. Neptunius belonging to Neptune: cf. F. neptunien.]
Of or pertaining to the ocean or sea.
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(Geol.) Formed by water or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks.
Neptunian races (Ethnol.), the Malay and Polynesian races.
Neptunian theory (Geol.), the theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s as "pertaining to the god Neptune;" 1794 in the geological sense, referring to actions of water, from Neptune + -ian. Usually opposed to volcanic or plutonic. As a noun meaning "inhabitant of the planet Neptune" it is recorded from 1870.
Usage examples of "neptunian".
I knew that Neptunian neurocircuits, in their zero temperatures, suffer very little degradation over the centuries.
There would be complexities, difficulties, and at least two alternate plans had to be prepared, depending on which faction was in control of the Neptunian polity.
With cascade-sequence re-recording and corrections, the Neptunian superconductive nerve tissue can retain a given personality for aeons.
We will no longer need interpreters or Eleemosynary routines to communicate with the Neptunian neuroforms.
An initial fund of some sixty-five hundred seconds should allow us to buy a channel of communication, if not with Triton or Nereid, then at least with the Neptunian Legate-mass stationed near Trailing Trojan city-swarm, where they keep a permanent embassy.
Your plan to find work in the Neptunian markets does seem disproportional to the desired effect.
But then again, it would be typical Neptunian humor to absorb large sections of expensive memory with an unintelligent messenger-tree no one dared erase.
The partials combined and evolved in a seething, tangled mass of vigorous conflict, to form a consensus entity, or, rather, successive sets of consensus entities, whose proclamations influenced the course of Neptunian dialogue and society.
When this message is transmitted back to the Neptunian embassy, Diomedes will have the option either to reject or accept the representations made as his own.
I was just wondering why you were wasting my investment chatting with a Neptunian machine about politics.
I assume the major expense to your proposed interstellar expedition is the Neptunian lack of skilled technical personnel.
Furthermore, the ship interfaces were designed for a base neuroform, and are not proper for Neptunian crewmen, who have different neural architecture, thought conventions, and time regulations.
I could get you cheap labor to do your interface translation to the Neptunian formats?
I also have a large group of workers able to run the standardized routines to translate all interfaces to Neptunian formats.
That character may change if some or all of the Afloats transfer their brain-information into Neptunian housings.