neptune

Definition of Neptune in English :

Noun

1. neptune

(Roman mythology) god of the sea; counterpart of Greek Poseidon

2. neptune

a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants

Example Sentences:
'the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Neptune

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noun

the Roman god of the sea

. Greek counterpart: Poseidon

noun

the eighth planet from the sun, having fourteen known satellites, the largest being Triton and Nereid, and a faint planar system of rings or ring fragments. Mean distance from sun: 4497 million km; period of revolution around sun: 164.8 years; period of rotation: 14 to 16 hours; diameter and mass: 4.0 and 17.2 times that of earth respectively

Neptune

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noun

1. Roman Mythology

the god of the sea: identified with the Greek Poseidon

2.

the sea personified

3.

the fourth largest planet of the solar system and normally the eighth in distance from the sun: it has a thin, icy ring system around its equator: diameter, c. 49,530 km (c. 30,780 mi); period of revolution, 164.79 earth years; period of rotation, 16.11 hours; 13 satellites; symbol, ♆

Neptune

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a. Roman Mythology The god of water, later identified with the Greek Poseidon.

b. The sea.

2. The eighth planet from the sun, having a sidereal period of revolution around the sun of 164.8 years at a mean distance of 4.5 billion kilometers (2.8 billion miles), a mean equatorial diameter of 49,528 kilometers (30,775 miles), and a mass 17.25 times that of Earth.

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