NEPTUNE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Neptune mean? 

• NEPTUNE (noun)
  The noun NEPTUNE has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: NEPTUNE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEPTUNE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

Roman deity (a deity worshipped by the ancient Romans)

Domain category:

Roman mythology (the mythology of the ancient Romans)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Context example:

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

Instance hypernyms:

gas giant; Jovian planet (any of the four outermost planets in the solar system; much larger than Earth and gaseous in nature (like Jupiter))

outer planet ((astronomy) a major planet whose orbit is outside the asteroid belt (Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto))

superior planet (any of the planets whose orbit lies outside the earth's orbit)

Holonyms ("Neptune" is a member of...):

solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)

 Context examples 

Neptune is the planet of dreams, and Jupiter is a planet that enlarges all it touches.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The scientists report the candidate moon is unusually large – potentially comparable to Neptune.

(Astronomers Find First Evidence of Possible Moon Outside Our Solar System, NASA)

An undiscovered planet outside the orbit of Neptune, 10 times the mass of Earth, would affect the orbit of Saturn, not Cassini.

(Saturn Spacecraft Not Affected by Hypothetical Planet 9, NASA)

The images indicate that the vortices probably develop deeper in Neptune's atmosphere, becoming visible only when the top of the storm reaches higher altitudes.

(Hubble Reveals Dynamic Atmospheres of Uranus, Neptune, NASA)

Beginning in July 2015, bright clouds were again seen on Neptune.

(Hubble Imagery Confirms New Dark Spot on Neptune, NASA)

It is a possible "Planet Nine" — a world perhaps 10 times the mass of Earth and 20 times farther from the sun than Neptune.

(The Super-Earth that Came Home for Dinner, NASA)

"We suspect that Naiad was kicked into its tilted orbit by an earlier interaction with one of Neptune's other inner moons," Brozovic said.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

The detected amounts of hydrogen, oxygen and sulphur are similar to those found in the deep atmospheric layers of icy, giant planets like Neptune and Uranus.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

Can it be woman? Can it be Neptune? Or a trident? or a mermaid? or a shark?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Estimated to be about 1.9 times Earth's size, K2-288Bb is half the size of Neptune.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)