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jupiter

/joo-pi-ter/US // ˈdʒu pɪ tər //UK // (ˈdʒuːpɪtə) //

木星,朱庇特,金星,癸巳

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : Also called Jove. the supreme deity of the ancient Romans: the god of the heavens and of weather.Compare Zeus.
    • : Astronomy. the planet fifth in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 88,729 miles, a mean distance from the sun of 483.6 million miles, a period of revolution of 11.86 years, and at least 14 moons. It is the largest planet in the solar system.
    • : Military. a medium-range U.S. ballistic missile of the 1950s, powered by a single liquid-fueled rocket engine.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • NASA has already shifted one major mission from SLS — recently it announced that a commercial rocket, and not SLS, as Congress had mandated for years, would launch the Europa Clipper spacecraft that would study Jupiter’s moon.

  • The third one is “very fluffy,” Leleu says, with a density like Jupiter’s, but in a much smaller planet.

  • Calculations hint that a massive, icy planet could have tussled with Jupiter and lost.

  • Since the conjunction, Jupiter and Saturn slowly appear to go their separate ways, from our earthly point of view, and Mercury — the planet closest to the sun — arrives to join them soon after sunset.

  • Meanwhile, a team of astronauts aboard the spaceship Aether is set to return to Earth after a mission to Jupiter.

  • Lakes on Titan are full of methane, and the chemical is a major component of the giant planets Jupiter, Neptune, and so forth.

  • The Asteroid Belt in the Solar System has many such gaps, created by the gravity of the Sun and Jupiter.

  • By contrast, the interior of big planets like Jupiter still hold some mysteries, such as whether they have rocky cores.

  • When Jupiter went public in 1998, Harris was worth something like $80 million.

  • Jupiter and its cousins, by contrast, are mostly made of hydrogen and hydrogen compounds.

  • Some say that Callisthenes was crucified by order of Alexander for not having acknowledged him to be the son of Jupiter.

  • Gentle at first, gathering volume as it proceeded, and finally bursting into the fury of a Jupiter-Tonans.

  • At l. 568 of the same book begins the story of the love of Jupiter for Io.

  • Jupiter is mentioned in Ovid's Metamorphoses immediately after the description of the golden, silver, brazen, and iron ages.

  • Jupiter appears not to have passed its primary period; the Moon has perhaps no longer any inhabitants.