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Solar System
/ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
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What does Solar System mean?
noun
- Any orbital system of at least one fusor and other heavenly bodies, like planets and other objects.
- Ellipsis of solar power system (“electric power system that supplies usable solar power by means of photovoltaics”).
proper noun
- Alternative letter-case form of Solar System; the Sun and all the objects in orbit around it.
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proper noun
- The Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it, including the eight planets, their moons, the asteroids, and comets.
- Alternative letter-case form of Solar System.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
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What assurance that I might not as well be hurtled to some far-distant star of another solar system, as to Mars?
It is a celestial game of ten-pins, with the solar system for a bowling-alley, and the earth waiting for a ten-strike.
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THE most elaborate structure yet proposed to explain the origin of the solar system is the planetesimal hypothesis by Chamberlin and Moulton.
The stars, too, lie mostly in or around one great plane, as is the case with the members of the solar system.
The Newtonian solar system, which expressed the reign of natural law, was a scene of wonderful harmony, where every force balanced with every other.