MARTIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Martian mean? 

• MARTIAN (noun)
  The noun MARTIAN has 1 sense:

1. imaginary people who live on the planet Mars

  Familiarity information: MARTIAN used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MARTIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Imaginary people who live on the planet Mars

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

imaginary being; imaginary creature (a creature of the imagination; a person that exists only in legends or myths or fiction)

• MARTIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to the planet Mars (or its fictional inhabitants)

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Mars (a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color)

Derivation:

Mars (a small reddish planet that is the 4th from the sun and is periodically visible to the naked eye; minerals rich in iron cover its surface and are responsible for its characteristic color)

 Context examples 

Buried water ice changes the temperature of the Martian surface.

(NASA's Treasure Map for Water Ice on Mars, NASA)

Martian weather and soil conditions that NASA's Curiosity rover has measured, together with a type of salt found in Martian soil, could put liquid brine in the soil at night.

(Mars Rover's Weather Data Bolster Case for Brine, NASA)

Combining observations from the surface and from orbit could help scientists locate sources of the gas on the planet and understand how long it lasts in the Martian atmosphere.

(Curiosity Detects Unusually High Methane Levels, NASA)

The amount of delivered mass needed for human exploration could be greatly reduced by using Martian natural resources for a water supply and as raw material for producing hydrogen fuel.

(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)

Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

(NASA Rover Findings Point to a More Earth-like Martian Past, NASA)

Dust towers appear throughout the Martian year, but MRO observed something different during the 2018 global dust storm.

(Global Storms on Mars Launch Dust Towers Into the Sky, NASA)

Mars first went into Sagittarius on January 3, and now you have two more weeks to use this powerful Martian energy to your own advantage.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The Martian surface is extremely quiet, allowing SEIS, InSight's specially designed seismometer, to pick up faint rumbles.

(NASA's InSight Detects First Likely 'Quake' on Mars, NASA)

These Martian organics could either have formed on Mars or been delivered to Mars by meteorites.

(Curiosity Detects Methane Spike on Mars, NASA)

The idea would be to have the astronauts control robots on the Martian surface from the moons of Mars, without the considerable time delay faced by Earth-based operators.

(Solar Eruptions Could Electrify Martian Moons, NASA)