Neptunian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /nɛpˈtjuː.nɪ.ən/
ipa: /nɛpˈt(j)u.ni.ən/
ipa: /-ˈtʃuː-/
Etymology: From Neptune (“eighth planet in the solar system”) + -ian.
Senses: examples: text: The Sun represents a masculine principle—assertion, expression and spirit. Neptune touching it brings in the qualities of sensitivity and creativity as well as weakness, dissolution, dissipation and elusiveness. If we take the Sun to represent the image of father, the person's experience of father (the Sun) will be coloured by Neptune. The father will receive the Neptunian projection and the child with this aspect will be sensitive to the father's Neptunian side.
ref: 1987, Liz Greene, Howard Sasportas, “Your Inborn Images”, in The Development of the Personality: Seminars in Psychological Astrology, volume 1, Boston, Mass.: Red Wheel/Weiser, →ISBN, part 1 (The Stages of Childhood), pages 11–12:
topics: astrology
human-sciences
mysticism
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Neptune.
examples: text: After making a sketch of the Neptunian regions for the dates from 1790 to 1800, I soon came to the conclusion that the nights of the 8th and 10th of May, 1795, were the only ones that afforded a reasonable prospect of furnishing an observation of Neptune, and accordingly computed for the evening of the 10th of May, the limits of the Neptunian region, or in other words the locus of Neptune as a fixed star, [...]
ref: 1851, Sears C[ook] Walker, “Researches Relative to the Planet Neptune”, in Smithsonian Contributions to Knowledge, volume II, Washington, D.C.: Published by the Smithsonian Institution, →OCLC, section 2, page 17:
text: The planet Uranus, in like manner, detached, in process of time, a satellite, followed, in the progress of the cosmic ages, by seven others. A slow disturbing influence, supposed also to be recognized in the Neptunian system, has manifested itself in the Uranian, in an excessive obliquity of the plane of the Uranian satellites—an obliquity which considerably exceeds a right angle, [...]
ref: 1874 January, [Alexander Winchell], “Art. V.—The Unity of the Physical World.”, in D. D. Whedon, editor, Methodist Quarterly Review, volume XXVI (4th Series; volume LVI overall), New York, N.Y.: Nelson & Phillips; Cincinnati, Oh.: Hitchcock & Walden, section II (Facts of Succession), subsection I (Primordial History of the Solar System), page 83:
text: For the Neptunian rings, we again expect that Q#95;#123;occ#125;#61;2 for Earth-based occultation data, so long as the mean particle size is substantially larger than the wavelength of observation (2.2μm). [...] In fact, photometric observations suggest that most Neptunian ring particles are sub-centimeter in size [...], so that we have Q#95;#123;occ#125;#92;simeq 2.
ref: 1995, Carolyn C. Porco, Philip D. Nicholson, Jeffrey N. Cuzzi, Jack J[onathan] Lissauer, Larry W. Esposito, “Neptune’s Ring System”, in Dale P. Cruikshank, with M. S. Matthews and A. M. Schumann, editors, Neptune and Triton (Space Science Series), Tucson, Ariz.: University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 733:
text: Neptune has a faint ring system and 14 known moons. The largest of these is Triton, which contains over 90% of the mass of all the Neptunian moons, and is the only Neptunian moon that's spherical.
ref: 2017, Helen Klus, “The Planet Neptune”, in How We Came to Know the Cosmos: Space & Time, [United Kingdom]: The Star Garden, →ISBN, part III (Missions to Planets), paragraph 24.2, page 220:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Of or pertaining to the planet Neptune.
Coordinate terms: Jovian
Lunar
Martian
Mercurian
Plutonian
Saturnian
Solar
Terran
Uranian
Venusian
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: cis-Neptunian
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: neptunate
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: Neptunian planet
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: neptunic
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: Neptunicentric
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: neptunite
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: neptunium
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: transneptunian
sense: Terms derived from Neptunian (astronomy)
word: trans-Neptunian