solar system
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- noun
- /ˈsoʊlər ˈsɪstəm/
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sistema solar
- Interestingly, we have an intruder in the solar system that was discovered last year.
- planets in the solar system
- inner solar system
- objects in the solar system
We're just one planet in one solar system in one Galaxy.
- We're just one planet in one solar system in one Galaxy.
- Every week they find the solar system that's kind of like ours.
- Colonization, in particular of the solar system, but it can also extend further.
- A cosmic transformation not only of the earth, but of the solar system itself.
- And that system is called the solar system.
- The Galaxy is much older than the solar system itself.
- So the solar system modelers were very, very happy.
- Because by the time light gets from there to here, our solar system won't exist.
- Now you realize that not only is the universe not our solar system, it's not even our Galaxy.
- That is, once we leave the solar system, we can diverge.
Examples
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The biggest and most beautiful planet in our solar system.
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So what's in the solar system that JWST has been looking at?
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Name one planet in our solar system that is larger than Earth.
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Well, they are people, just like us... ...from within our own solar system.
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I have a duty to the people of our solar system, as do you.
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How far are the other planets in our solar system to the sun?
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Jupiter, fifth planet from the sun, largest in our solar system...
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The solar system revolves around the sun, not the Earth.
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By 2200 A.D., they had reached the other planets of our solar system.
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Scientists have learned a lot about the planets in our solar system.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'solar' (pertaining to the Sun) + 'system' (a collection of related parts), so 'solar system' straightforwardly denotes the Sun and its associated bodies. This adjectival+noun composition is a standard, transparent pattern found across many languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the term.
Etymology
The noun solar system comes from a simple picture: the Sun at the center with the planets and other objects moving around it like parts of one 'system', so the phrase means the Sun plus everything that travels around it.