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Planetary

Planetary \Plan"et*a*ry\, a. [Cf. L. planetarius an astrologer, F. plan['e]taire planetary. See Planet.]

  1. Of or pertaining to the planets; as, planetary inhabitants; planetary motions; planetary year.

  2. Consisting of planets; as, a planetary system.

  3. (Astrol.) Under the dominion or influence of a planet. ``Skilled in the planetary hours.''
    --Drayton.

  4. Caused by planets. ``A planetary plague.''
    --Shak.

  5. Having the nature of a planet; erratic; revolving; wandering. ``Erratical and planetary life.''
    --Fuller.

    Planetary days, the days of the week as shared among the planets known to the ancients, each having its day.
    --Hutton.

    Planetary nebula, a nebula exhibiting a uniform disk, like that of a planet.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
planetary

1590s; see planet + -ary. Probably from Late Latin planetarius "pertaining to a planet or planets," but this is attested only as "an astrologer." Planetary nebula, so called for its shape, attested from 1785.

Wiktionary
planetary

a. 1 (context astronomy English) Of, or relating to planets, or the orbital motion of planets. 2 Of, or relating to the Earth; terrestrial. 3 Of, or relating to the whole Earth; global. 4 (context of a gear train English) epicyclic n. A planetary nebula.

WordNet
planetary
  1. adj. of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets; "planetary motion"; "planetary year" [syn: planetal]

  2. 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" [syn: terrestrial]

  3. having no fixed course; "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond" [syn: erratic, wandering]

  4. 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" [syn: global, world(a), worldwide]

Wikipedia
Planetary (comics)

Planetary is an American comic book series created by writer Warren Ellis and artist John Cassaday, and published by the Wildstorm imprint of DC Comics. After an initial preview issue in September 1998, the series ran for 27 issues from April 1999 to October 2009.

Planetary

Planetary means relating to a planet or planets. It can also refer to:

  • Planetary (comics), a comic book series by Warren Ellis and John Cassaday
  • Planetary (film), a 2015 documentary film about climate change, spirituality, and awakening
  • "Planetary" (Go!), a 2011 song by rock band My Chemical Romance
  • Planetary habitability, the measure of an astronomical body's potential to develop and sustain life
  • Planetary nebula, an astronomical object
  • Epicyclic gearing (planetary gearing), an automotive transmission technology
  • Planetary Radio, a public radio show about space exploration, produced by The Planetary Society
  • Planetary (rapper), one half of east coast rap group OuterSpace
  • Planetary scanner - type of image scanner for making scans of rare books with mounted camera taking photos
  • The Planetary Society, the Earth's largest space interest group
Planetary (rapper)

Mario Collazo (better known by his stage name Planetary) is an underground rapper from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Collazo is one half of the rap duo OuterSpace and is a member of Army of the Pharaohs.

Planetary (Go!)

"Planetary (Go!)" is a single from My Chemical Romance's fourth and final studio album, Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys as well as the fifth track on the album. Beneath the band's name and song title on the cover art of the single, the Japanese word for go, 行け (go) can be seen. The song was nominated for the Kerrang! Award for Best Single.

Usage examples of "planetary".

The woman was holding an old-fashioned astrolabe, the tool port astrologers had used to calculate relative planetary positions and the intersecting harmonic envelopes.

Why must the public pay through the nose for the endless bickering and backbiting between these two monster organizations Planetary Development and the Space Force?

But they use a solar barycentric frame for other planetary phenomena in order to get results that agree with relativity.

Cabinet ministers and diplomatic liaisons, senior advisers and planetary rulers, roused from sleep, called away from other duties, torn away from their private business to gather in front of monitors on every planet from Bespin to Byss.

Luke, Threepio, and Artoo had come to the planet Bespin on a mission for SPINthe Senate Planetary Intelligence Network.

Isaac Taylor, on the contrary, contends with no little force and ingenuity that the sun may be the heaven of our planetary system, a globe of immortal blessedness and glory.

Duggan approached Brose privately in his office at the Executive Suites end of the Planetary Department.

As the chief administrator of the Planetary Council of the Independent and Most Revered Homeworld of Earth silently digested this news, his friend and assistant extraordinaire gazed back at him with the desperate eyes of a short-legged dog locked alone for the night in a butcher shop with high counters.

Colonel Longo has launched two reconnaissance probes and expects to provide vectors for planetary defense interceptors within the next moon cycle.

The descent of the soul from heaven and its return thither were denoted by a torch borne alternately reversed and upright, and by the descriptions of the passage of spirits, in the round of the metempsychosis, through the planetary gates of the zodiac.

A planetary government, I might add, which has already requested your immediate court martial for mutiny, treason, insubordination, misappropriation of private property, and everything else snort of littering?

I made no attempt to explain to him the economics of galactic commerce, planetary prestige, or the multifold levels of intercommunication.

We all have a powerful formative part to play in the interwoven tapestry of energy change and patterning that makes up our lives - both individually and in a planetary sense.

He and Peart had taken over one of the geosurvey labs and reconfigured it into a sophisticated planetary surveillance center.

Teeth, during Farsun Week, reached a climax today when the Planetary Prosecutor presented charges against fourteen individuals allegedly responsible for the abduction of Renna Aarons, Peripatetic Emissary from the Hominid Phylum.