PROTOPLANET

Meaning of PROTOPLANET in English

/proh"toh plan'it/ , n. Astron.

the collection of matter, in the process of condensation, from which a planet is formed.

[ 1945-50; PROTO- + PLANET ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012

PROTOPLANET — noun Date: 1949 a hypothetical whirling gaseous mass within a giant cloud of gas and dust that rotates around a …
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PROTOPLANET — |prōd.ə+ noun Etymology: prot- + planet : a whirling gaseous eddy within a giant cloud of gas and dust rotating …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
PROTOPLANET — n. cloud of cosmic gas and dust that orbits a star and is in the process of condensing to form …
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PROTOPLANET — noun Date: 1949 : a hypothetical whirling gaseous mass within a giant cloud of gas and dust that rotates around …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PROTOPLANET — [pro.to.plan.et] n (1949): a hypothetical whirling gaseous mass within a giant cloud of gas and dust that rotates around a …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
PROTOPLANET — in astronomical theory, a hypothetical eddy in a whirling cloud of gas or dust that becomes a planet by condensation …
Britannica English vocabulary
PROTOPLANET — протопланета
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
PROTOPLANET — протопланета
Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
PROTOPLANET — протопланета
Англо-Русский физический словарь
PROTOPLANET — протопланета
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
PROTOPLANET — протопланета
Англо-Русский словарь
PROTOPLANET — n. Pronunciation: ' pr ō -t ō - ˌ pla-n ə t Function: noun Date: 1949 : a hypothetical whirling …
Merriam Webster Collegiate English Dictionary
PROTOPLANETARY — adjective see: protoplanet
Толковый словарь английского языка - Merriam Webster
PROTOPLANETARY — adj. pertaining to a protoplanet (cloud of cosmic gas that is condensing to form a planet)
Толковый словарь английского языка - Редакция bed
PROTOPLANETARY — see protoplanet
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
PROT- — [prot-] or proto- comb form [ME protho-, fr. MF, fr. LL proto-, fr. Gk prot-, proto-, fr. protos; akin to …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
SOLAR NEBULA — gaseous cloud from which, in the so-called nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system, the Sun and planets …
Britannica English vocabulary
PLANETESIMAL — one of a class of hypothetical bodies that eventually coalesced to form the planets after condensing from gaseous matter early …
Britannica English vocabulary
HYDROSPHERE — discontinuous layer of water at or near the Earth's surface. It includes all liquid and frozen surface waters, groundwater held …
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COSMOGONY — in astronomy, study of the evolutionary behaviour of the universe and the origin of its characteristic features. For scientific theories …
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary

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