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outer planets

outer planets is the plural of outer planet.

Meaning of outer planet

Noun

outer planet (plural outer planets)

  1. Any planet of the Solar System whose orbit is located beyond the asteroid belt, i.e., any of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune.
    • Voyager shattered the dogma that the worlds of the outer solar system had been shaped by similar, predictable, and rather uninteresting processes. […] From our post-Voyager perspective, it is truly astounding how very little we knew about the outer planets when we started.1990 August, Bradford A. Smith, “Voyage of the Century”, in National Geographic, volume 178, number 2, page 52
    Antonyms:
    inner planet

Questions about outer planets

What is outer planets the plural of?
Outer planets is the plural of outer planet.

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  7. outer product
  8. outer products
  9. outer regular
  10. outer semidirect product
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