Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An apparatus or model representing the solar system.
- n. An optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome.
- n. A building or room containing a planetarium, with seats for an audience.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An astronomical machine which, by the movement of its parts, represents the motions and orbits of the planets. See orrery.
Wiktionary
- n. A display museum in which images of stars and other astronomical phenomena are projected onto a domed ceiling.
- n. An orrery.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. An orrery. See orrery.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
- n. an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome
- n. a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
Etymologies
- From New Latin, formed from planet + -arium. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“So you wonder who actually wrote that bit, when a planetarium is an excellent example of exciting science education for students, yet it's dismissed so casually more than once.”
“(In homage to Nehru's interest in astronomy, the city's planetarium is next door.) 12: 10 A.M. INDIRA GANDHI”
“I'm sorry, did he call a planetarium "foolishness"?”
“The Gottorp Globe, the world’s first modern planetarium, is completed in Germany.”
“Mason's trip to the planetarium was a big success.”
“Outside the planetarium were a number of science exhibits, including an environmental-themed multimedia presentation.”
“Now celebrating its 75th anniversary, the planetarium was the first built in the Western hemisphere, and the first with a Zeiss, an optical projection device creating the illusion of a night sky.”
“Now, Hodge reports, the school has added a number of classrooms, an audiovisual room, computer lab, and even a planetarium, which is named for his wife, Marlene, a longtime champion of Project Nino who died in 2004.”
“Of course our planetarium is a fraction of the cost the structure itself is very expensive needless to say the projector.”
“McCain's "overhead projector" is the apparatus that runs the planetarium, which is a bit like calling the Palomar Observatory a new set of glasses.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘planetarium’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Wheel
lantern-wheel, trundle-wheel, trundlehead, worm wheel, cogwheel, match wheel, spur wheel, disk-wheel, star-wheel, canting-wheel, addendum circle, dedendum and 115 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
pellucid, pertain, pampas, prate, pinecone, philistine, pantocrator, papaverine, postmeridian, potlatch, pharology, pinniped and 622 more...
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gorgonglare's list
the best
zeppelin, ion, laconic, serendipity, cataract, saturnine, syzygy, cinnabar, bistro, lithium, paroxysm, scion and 694 more...
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arynzmuse's Words
cacaphony, jealously, aerie, substrate, sedimentology, planetarium, aqueous, sororal, feminine, quidditch, muggle, uniformitarianism and 53 more...
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ium, ium
Some words that end in. . .you guessed it.
planetarium, aquarium, solarium, terrarium, medium, tedium, praesidium, librium, lithium, premium, titanium, geranium and 27 more...
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my words.
ephemeral, ambivalence, symbiosis, ineffable, transcendental, momentous, zeppelin, agoraphobia, planetarium, cleverness, ambilevous, lambent and 67 more...
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Astronomical Terms
Per ardua ad astra.
constellation, nebula, planetarium, quasar, pulsar, galaxy, moon, planet, comet, betelgeuse
Tweets
Looking for tweets for planetarium.
sonofgroucho There is a fabulous planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York:
Jan 23, 2008