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US
/ˈdʒoʊviən/
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ADJECTIVE
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of or pertaining to or characteristic of or resembling the planet Jupiter
Jovian satellites -
of or pertaining to or befitting the Roman deity Jupiter
Jovian wrath
Jovian thunderbolts
How To Use Jovian In A Sentence
- The Jovian moons Io and Europa are about the same size as Earth's moon.
- So, being encouraged by the opinions of braver men, he ordered two legions, known as the Jovian and the The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens
- This scenario proposes that a jovian gas giant forms when, by gradual accretion of rock or ice, a solid planetary core has reached a critical mass of perhaps 10 M.
- What happens is that at a certain height in the Jovian atmosphere, the pressure allows a red crystalline form of ice-not the white stuff we splash whisky onto, or the black allotrope down at the surface, or the super-dense variety in the mantle around the Jovian core. Agent Of The Terran Empire
- Jovian decametric radio emission with peak flux densities in the range of 10-100x10-22 wm - 2 Hz - 1 are common.
- Jovianus Pontanus makes an old fool rhyme, and turn poetaster to please his mistress. Anatomy of Melancholy
- Jovian satellites
- Together, these four planets are sometimes referred to as the Jovian planets. WN.com - Articles related to India gets own vaccine against swine flu
- Only seventy thousand miles above the turbulent Jovian cloudscape, and completing each orbit in less than twelve hours, Jupiter V is the nearest thing to a natural synchronous satellite in the whole Solar System. Tin
- Being homeothermic, and living on a planet whose slight axial tilt makes for less temperature variation than on Earth, Jovians rarely had any practical need to dress. Three Worlds to Conquer
