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Dimidium

Dimidium proper noun: 51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

dimidium: 51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the...
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Proper noun

Dimidium

  1. 51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

Origin of Dimidium

Borrowed from Latin dīmidium (“half”), referring to the planet's mass of approximately half the mass of Jupiter.

Phrases with Dimidium

Questions about Dimidium

What does Dimidium mean?
Dimidium means 51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.
What part of speech is Dimidium?
Dimidium is a proper noun.

Words near Dimidium in the dictionary

  1. dimidiately
  2. dimidiates
  3. dimidiating
  4. dimidiation
  5. dimidiations
  6. Dimidium
  7. dimidium dimidiumque
  8. Dimili
  9. dimin.
  10. diminazen
  11. diminazene

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