Definitions for Saturn

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Saturn Sat·urn

Spelling: [sat-ern]

IPA: /ˈsæt ərn/

Saturn is a 6 letter English word.

You can make 131 anagrams from letters in Saturn (anrstu).

Definitions for Saturn

noun

1. an ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
2. Astronomy. the planet sixth in order from the sun, having an equatorial diameter of 74,600 miles (120,000 km), a mean distance from the sun of 886.7 million miles (1427 million km), a period of revolution of 29.46 years, and 21 known moons. It is the second largest planet in the solar system, encompassed by a series of thin, flat rings composed of small particles of ice.
3. Alchemy. the metal lead.
4. a U.S. space-vehicle booster developing from 2 million to 9 million pounds (900,000 to 4 million kg) of thrust for launching satellites, probes, and spaceships.

Examples for Saturn

The U.S. had stopped most research and development on this kind of engine after the Saturn V moon rocket was retired.

Of course, the failure of our family outing hardly mattered, for The Rings of Saturn can be relived by reading and re-reading.

When the planets Saturn and Mercury conjoin, the lead has to be melted and the mercury added.

Herschel's paper on Saturn, in 1790, is an admirable example of this.

The authors of the new study used data from the Cassini probe orbiting Saturn to measure the libration of Mimas.

Mimas always presents the same face to Saturn, just as the Moon does to Earth.

Since one year on Saturn lasts roughly 29.5 Earth years, each season is a little more than seven Earth-years long.

And simultaneously he envisaged the present reality of Saturn.

Suppose, for example, that the last planet in our system had been Saturn.

Perhaps they have Rings there, as they have at Saturn, only less conspicuous.