extrasolar

adj

Etymology

From extra- + solar.

  1. inherited from *salaz
  2. inherited from *salaʀ
  3. inherited from solor
  4. derived from sōlārium
  5. inherited from soler
  6. inherited from solar
  7. formed as extrasolar — “extra- + solar

Definitions

  1. of or originating outside the Solar System.

    • Some comets are thought to have an extrasolar origin.
  2. of or originating in a system other than Earth's, the solar system.

    • A four-inch telescope was once used to find an extrasolar planet.
    • Of course, no one has any idea whether the extrasolar life is anything more than a few trillion microbes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for extrasolar. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA