NOACHIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Noachian mean? 

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

1. of or relating to Noah or his time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NOACHIAN (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Noah or his time

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Noachian deluge

Pertainym:

Noah (the Hebrew patriarch who saved himself and his family and the animals by building an ark in which they survived 40 days and 40 nights of rain; the story of Noah and the flood is told in the Book of Genesis)

 Context examples 

First, they examined data from the gamma ray spectrometer aboard NASA's Odyssey spacecraft, from which they inferred how much of various radioactive elements would have been present in Mars's crust during the Noachian, and therefore how much radiation would have been available to split water and so produce hydrogen.

(Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years, Wikinews)

The study showed that, during Mars's Noachian period (4.1–3.7 billion years ago), radiolysis, the process by which radiation splits water molecules apart, produced enough hydrogen gas (H2) for microbial organisms to live on so long as they remained within the area just beneath the cryosphere, the SHZ (subcryospheric highly-fractured zone).

(Study suggests Mars hosted life-sustaining habitat for millions of years, Wikinews)