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Uranus

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U·ra·nus  (yr-ns, y-rns, )
n.
1. Greek Mythology The earliest supreme god, a personification of the sky, who was the son and consort of Gaea and the father of the Cyclopes and Titans.
2. The seventh planet from the sun, revolving about it every 84.01 years at a mean distance of approximately 2.9 billion kilometers (1.8 billion miles), having a mean equatorial diameter of 51,118 kilometers (31,764 miles) and a mass 14.6 times that of Earth.

[Late Latin ranus, from Greek ouranos, heaven, Uranus.]

Uranus
Noun
1. Greek myth a god; the personification of the sky
2. the seventh planet from the sun [Greek Ouranos heaven]

Uranus  (yr-ns, y-r-)
The seventh planet from the Sun and the third largest, with a diameter about four times that of Earth. Though slightly larger than Nepture, Uranus is the least massive of the four gas giants and is the only one with no internal heat source. A cloud layer of frozen methane gives it a faint bluish-green color, and it is encircled by a thin system of 11 rings and 27 moons. Uranus's axis is tilted 98° from the verticalthe greatest such tilt in the solar systemwith the result that its poles are in continuous darkness or continuous sunlight for nearly half of its 84-year orbital period. See Table at solar system.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.UranusUranus - (Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology
Greek mythology - the mythology of the ancient Greeks
2.UranusUranus - a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites; "Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781"
solar system - the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field
Translations
Spanish Uranus [juəˈreɪnəs] n (ASTRO) → Urano
French Uranus [juəˈreɪnəs] nUranus f
German Uranus [juəˈreɪnəs] nUranus m
Italian Uranus [juəˈreɪnəs] n (planet) → Urano

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First of all, I said, there was that greatest of all lies, in high places, which the poet told about Uranus, and which was a bad lie too,-- I mean what Hesiod says that Uranus did, and how Cronus retaliated on him.
Uranus has eight, Saturn eight, Jupiter four, Neptune possibly three, and the Earth one.
the charms of Aouda failed to act, to Passepartout's great surprise; and the disturbances, if they existed, would have been more difficult to calculate than those of Uranus which led to the discovery of Neptune.
 
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