extrasolar
See also: extra-solar
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extrasolar (not comparable)
- (astronomy) of or originating outside the Solar System.
- Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin.
- (astrophysics) of or originating in a solar system other than Earth's.
- A four-inch telescope was once used to find an extrasolar planet.
- 1993, Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower, HEADLINE PUBLISHING GROUP (2019), page 78:
- Of course, no one has any idea whether the extrasolar life is anything more than a few trillion microbes.
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originating outside the Solar System
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originating in a solar system other than ours
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extrasolar (strong nominative masculine singular extrasolarer, not comparable)
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Positive forms of extrasolar (uncomparable)
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- “extrasolar” in Duden online
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extrasolar m or f (masculine and feminine plural extrasolares)
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- “extrasolar”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014