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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Planet \Plan"et\, noun [OE. planete, F. plan['e]te, L. planeta, fr. Gr. ?, and ? a planet; prop. wandering, fr. ? to wander, fr. ? a wandering.]
1. (Astron.) A celestial body which revolves about the sun in an orbit of a moderate degree of eccentricity. It is distinguished from a comet by the absence of a coma, and by having a less eccentric orbit. See {Solar system}.
Note: The term planet was first used to distinguish those stars which have an apparent motion through the constellations from the fixed stars, which retain their relative places unchanged. The inferior planets are Mercury and Venus, which are nearer to the sun than is the earth; the superior planets are Mars, the asteroids, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, which are farther from the sun than is the earth. Primary planets are those which revolve about the sun; secondary planets, or moons, are those which revolve around the primary planets as satellites, and at the same time revolve with them about the sun.
2. A star, as influencing the fate of a men.
There's some ill planet reigns. --Shak.
{Planet gear}. (Mach.) See {Epicyclic train}, under {Epicyclic}.
{Planet wheel}, a gear wheel which revolves around the wheel with which it meshes, in an epicyclic train.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
planet
noun
1: any of the celestial bodies (other than comets or satellites) that revolve around the sun in the solar system
2: a person who follows or serves another [syn: {satellite}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "planet": Earth, Jupiter, Mars, Mercury, Neptune, Pluto, Saturn, Uranus, Venus, asteroid, globe, inferior planet, major planet, minor planet, planetoid, secondary planet, solar system, superior planet, terrestrial planet, wanderer, world
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
Planet ["An Experiment in Language Design for Distributed Systems", D. Crookes et al, Soft Prac & Exp 14(10):957-971 (Oct 1984)].
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