solar system
nounUK /ˈsəʊl.ə ˌsɪs.təm/ · US /ˈsoʊ.lɚ ˌsɪs.təm/
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Any orbital system of at least one fusor and other heavenly bodies, like planets and other objects.
- The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources.1980, Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage:
- 1992, J. Laskar, page 31 in, Sylvio Ferraz-Mello (editor), "Chaos, resonance, and collective dynamical phenomena in the solar system", International Astronomical Union Symposium, I would like to stress out that the meaning of unstable for our solar system is very different than for another solar system.
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- Every satellite has turned out to differ in some significant feature from its neighbor: "[…]the sense of novelty would probably not have been greater if we had explored a different solar system".2001, Stuart Ross Taylor, Solar system evolution: a new perspective, 2nd edition, page xiii:
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Abbreviation, Ellipsis Ellipsis of solar power system (“electric power system that supplies usable solar power by means of photovoltaics”).
- Almost half of all U.S. households are unable to host a rooftop solar system because they rent or have inadequate roof space.2022 April 19 (last accessed), “Planning a Home Solar Electric System”, in Energy.gov, U.S. Department of Energy:
- Derived terms
- extrasolar system
- Related terms
- globular cluster, planetary system, star system