solar system
/ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.49 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any orbital system of at least one fusor and other heavenly bodies, like planets and other objects.
noun
Ellipsis of solar power system (“electric power system that supplies usable solar power by means of photovoltaics”).
name
The Sun and all the heavenly bodies that orbit around it, including the eight planets, their moons, the asteroids, and comets.
name
Alternative letter-case form of Solar System.
Example Sentences
- "The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources."
- "1992, J. Laskar, page 31 in, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (editor), "Chaos, resonance, and collective dynamical phenomena in the solar system", International Astronomical Union Symposium, I would like to stress out that the meaning of unstable for our solar system is very different than for another solar system."
- "Every satellite has turned out to differ in some significant feature from its neighbor: "[…]the sense of novelty would probably not have been greater if we had explored a different solar system"."
- "Almost half of all U.S. households are unable to host a rooftop solar system because they rent or have inadequate roof space."
- "Holonyms: Orion Arm < Milky Way < Local Group < Virgo Supercluster < Laniakea < Universe"
- "Meronyms: (planets) Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune; (selected major planetoids) Pluto, Ceres; (selected regions) inner Solar System, asteroid belt, outer Solar System; more at Thesaurus:Solar System"
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
- British English: /ˈsəʊl.ə ˌsɪs.təm/
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Astronomy.
Inflected Forms
the solar system (canonical)
solar systems (plural)