Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An apparatus or model representing the solar system.
- noun An optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome.
- noun A building or room containing a planetarium, with seats for an audience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An astronomical machine which, by the movement of its parts, represents the motions and orbits of the planets. See
orrery .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An orrery. See
orrery .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A display
museum in which images ofstars and otherastronomical phenomena are projected onto adomed ceiling. - noun An
orrery .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
- noun an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of a hemispherical dome
- noun a building housing an instrument for projecting the positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
Archive 2008-10-10 Nicole 2008
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(In homage to Nehru's interest in astronomy, the city's planetarium is next door.) 12: 10 A.M. INDIRA GANDHI
City Walk: New Delhi John Krich 2010
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I'm sorry, did he call a planetarium "foolishness"?
Bad Astronomy 2008
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The Gottorp Globe, the world’s first modern planetarium, is completed in Germany.
Boing Boing 2007
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Mason's trip to the planetarium was a big success.
Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009
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Outside the planetarium were a number of science exhibits, including an environmental-themed multimedia presentation.
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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.
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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.
Home 2010
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Of course our planetarium is a fraction of the cost the structure itself is very expensive needless to say the projector.
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Of course our planetarium is a fraction of the cost the structure itself is very expensive needless to say the projector.
sonofgroucho commented on the word planetarium
There is a fabulous planetarium in the Rose Center for Earth and Space in New York:
January 23, 2008