Gaia

Also Gae·a

[gey-uh]

noun

1. Classical Mythology,  the ancient Greek goddess who personified the earth and whose numerous offspring include Uranus, by whom she bore the Titans and the Cyclopes.

2. the earth, when regarded as the self-regulating organism described by the Gaia hypothesis.

   Our destiny is dependent on what we do for Gaia as a whole.

Gaia

/ ˈɡeɪə /

noun

1. the goddess of the earth, who bore Uranus and by him Oceanus, Cronus, and the Titans

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gaia¹

First recorded in 1970–75; from Greek gaîa “earth, the earth”

Word History and Origins

Origin of Gaia¹

from Greek gaia earth

Example Sentences

For about a century, astronomers have known that the Milky Way's stars orbit its core, and Gaia has precisely tracked their speeds and trajectories.

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By applying machine learning to Gaia's asteroid catalogue and then comparing the results to their model's prediction, Zhou's team found that the location of the gap matched what their model predicted almost perfectly.

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He points to Gaia X - a scheme launched in 2020 to create a European-based alternative to large, centralised cloud platforms, which has faced significant criticism and delays.

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When I first began writing my book “Gaia Wakes” eight years ago, I did not anticipate the sheer rapidity of artificial intelligence's ascent.

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The discovery was made possible by the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, which is mapping more than a billion stars throughout the Milky Way and beyond, tracking their motion, luminosity, temperature, and composition.

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Related Words

• atmosphere 
• ecosystem