JOVIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Jovian mean? 

• JOVIAN (adjective)
  The adjective JOVIAN has 2 senses:

1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling the planet Jupiter

2. of or pertaining to or befitting the Roman deity Jupiter

  Familiarity information: JOVIAN used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JOVIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling the planet Jupiter

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Jovian satellites

Pertainym:

Jupiter (the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky)

Derivation:

Jupiter (the largest planet and the 5th from the sun; has many satellites and is one of the brightest objects in the night sky)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or befitting the Roman deity Jupiter

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Jovian wrath

Pertainym:

Jupiter ((Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus)

Derivation:

Jupiter ((Roman mythology) supreme god of Romans; counterpart of Greek Zeus)

 Context examples 

The discovery of the massive Jovian tempest occurred on Nov. 3, 2019, during the most recent data-gathering flyby of Jupiter by NASA's Juno spacecraft.

(NASA's Juno Navigators Enable Jupiter Cyclone Discovery, NASA)

That encounter confirmed the existence of Jovian lightning.

(Juno Solves 39-Year Old Mystery of Jupiter Lightning, NASA)

The combination of the Great Blue Spot, with its strong localized magnetic fields, and strong zonal winds at this latitude result in the largest secular variations in the field on the Jovian world.

(NASA's Juno Finds Changes in Jupiter's Magnetic Field, NASA)

The Jovian weather layer, from its very top to a depth of 1,900 miles (3,000 kilometers), contains about one percent of Jupiter’s mass (about 3 Earth masses).

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)

During its mission of exploration, Juno will circle the Jovian world 37 times, soaring low over the planet's cloud tops — as close as about 2,600 miles (4,100 kilometers).

(Juno Spacecraft Sends First In-orbit View, NASA)

Past NASA missions of exploration that have visited the Jovian system (Voyagers 1 and 2, Galileo, Cassini and New Horizons), along with ground-based observations, have located over 150 active volcanoes on Io so far.

(NASA Juno data indicate another possible volcano on Jupiter moon Io, NASA)

Those images will include the highest-resolution views of the Jovian atmosphere and the first glimpse of Jupiter's north and south poles.

(Juno Successfully Completes Jupiter Flyby, NASA)

Io is the closest thing we have to hell in our Solar System, a Jovian moon that features hundreds of active volcanoes and expansive lakes filled with lava.

(Massive Lava Waves Detected on Solar System’s Most Volcanically Active Object, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.

(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)

A truly striking result released in the Nature papers is the beautiful new imagery of Jupiter’s poles captured by Juno’s Jovian Infrared Auroral Mapper (JIRAM) instrument.

(Jupiter’s Jet-Streams Are Unearthly, NASA)