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Meaning of 'neptune' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Neptune [ n.]
- The son of Saturn and Ops, the god of the waters, especially of the sea. He is represented as bearing a trident for a scepter.
- The remotest known planet of our system, discovered -- as a result of the computations of Leverrier, of Paris -- by Galle, of Berlin, September 23, 1846. Its mean distance from the sun is about 2,775,000,000 miles, and its period of revolution is about 164,78 years.

Meaning of 'neptune' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . neptune [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 8th planet from the sun is the most remote of the gas giants
Example in sentence:
  • the existence of Neptune was predicted from perturbations in the orbit of Uranus and it was then identified in 1846

Nearby Words:

nep nepa nepaulese nepenthe nepenthes nepeta nephalism nephalist nepheline nephelite

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