HABITABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habitable mean? 

• HABITABLE (adjective)
  The adjective HABITABLE has 1 sense:

1. fit for habitation

  Familiarity information: HABITABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABITABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fit for habitation

Synonyms:

habitable; inhabitable

Context example:

the habitable world

Similar:

livable; liveable (fit or suitable to live in or with)

Derivation:

habitability; habitableness (suitability for living in or on)

 Context examples 

GJ 357 d is located within the outer edge of its star’s habitable zone, where it receives about the same amount of stellar energy from its star as Mars does from the Sun.

(Confirmation of Toasty TESS Planet Leads to Surprising Find of Promising World, NASA)

Interestingly, its orbit puts the planet within the so-called habitable zone–the range of distances from a star where liquid water might pool on the surface of an orbiting planet.

(New Planet Is Largest Discovered That Orbits Two Suns, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Nine of these orbit in their sun's habitable zone, which is the distance from a star where orbiting planets can have surface temperatures that allow liquid water to pool.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

The Earth is situated halfway between the middle of the sun's habitable zone and its inner boundary.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The discovery of Kepler-186f confirms that planets the size of Earth exist in the habitable zone of stars other than our sun.

(Kepler Telescope Discovers First Earth-Size Planet in 'Habitable Zone', NASA)

NASA's Kepler mission has confirmed the first near-Earth-size planet in the "habitable zone" around a sun-like star.

(Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth, NASA)

If liquid water and a significant atmosphere were present on the early moon for long periods of time, the lunar surface would have been at least transiently habitable.

(Life Could Exist on Moon 4 Billion Years Ago, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The discovery adds to the evidence that ancient Mars was habitable for life.

(Curiosity Rover Finds Biologically Useful Nitrogen on Mars, NASA)

A thick atmosphere could also help redistribute heat to the dark sides of these tidally locked planets, increasing habitable real estate.

(TRAPPIST-1 is Older Than Our Solar System, NASA/JPL)

This greatly expands the potential locations to discover habitable planets in the future.

(Newfound Frozen World Orbits in Binary Star System, NASA)