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interplanetary

[ in-ter-plan-i-ter-ee ]

adjective

  1. being or occurring between the planets or between a planet and the sun.


interplanetary

/ ˌɪntəˈplænɪtərɪ, -trɪ /

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or existing between planets
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of interplanetary1

First recorded in 1685–95; inter- + planetary
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Example Sentences

Other origins of life researchers, however, doubt that the challenges to life arising on Earth are grave enough to resort to interplanetary travel.

The spacecraft’s payload — which includes a heat flow instrument, a magnetometer and a seismometer — makes it the first fully equipped interplanetary geophysicist.

Today SpaceX used its eighth prototype, SN8, to conduct the vehicle’s first high altitude flight test, an essential step toward making Musk’s dreams of interplanetary transportation a reality.

Fortunately for future explorers, the technology to link the far flung reaches of the solar system—an interplanetary internet—has been in the works for decades.

The interplanetary internet is an infrastructure that’s intended to support interplanetary activity, which could be research but someday could also be commercialization.

The plan is to mine asteroids to be used on Earth and for interplanetary travel.

But a vast amount of it will be spent in interplanetary doldrums, waiting to arrive at the destination.

But when pressed, she offered that a more interplanetary story line might serve the president well.

Interplanetary commerce, if and when it begins, will be fraught with all of the dangers that accompany pioneering expeditions.

Coming alongside the crushed hull of the interplanetary liner, we made an inspection of its position.

"They've been collecting here ever since the first interplanetary rocket-ships went forth," Crain reminded him.

And here we have reached the goal of our interplanetary journey.

Everybody was interested in, or affected by, interplanetary travel, now.

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