Phobosian

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English

Etymology

From Phobos +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Phobosian (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to Phobos.
    Synonym: Phobian
    • 1993, P. A. Bernhardt, Diedrich Möhlmann, Space plasma physics, page 62:
      The origin of superheavy ions (M/q>100) is still open. Have it the Phobosian or the Martian origin?
    • 2004, Ty Drago, Phobos, →ISBN:
      Far out across the Dust Sea, a great, rolling cloud of debris was being blown high into the Phobosian sky—easily eclipsing the plume generated by Beuller's pulses—fifty, maybe sixty meters up and rising.
    • 2006, Kazue Takahashi, Magnetospheric ULF waves: synthesis and new directions, →ISBN, page 348:
      In addition to the work done related to data from the eliptical orbits of Phobos-2, some groups have also used data from the circular orbits to report perturbations that were interpreted as an interaction between a dust torus created by Phobos and the solar wind [Dubinin, 1993; Yeroshenko, 2000] or by a putative Phobosian magnetosphere [Mordovskaya et al., 2001].

Noun

Phobosian (plural Phobosians)

  1. (science fiction) Someone from Phobos.
    Synonym: Phobian
    • 2002, Peter Crowther, Mars Probes, →ISBN, page 221:
      I was taking Valerie's kid to the Central Park Zoo when the Phobosians and the Deimosians started uprooting the city's power cables.
    • 2013, James Morrow, The Cat's Pyjamas, →ISBN:
      The Phobosians are encamped outside Grand Central Station, barely a block away.
    • 2013, Nathan Skaggs, The Red Star Encounter: The Dream Seers, →ISBN:
      After four days of thorough medical examinations, physicians from each species concluded a high level of mutualism could exist between the Phobosians and the Interspecies Coalition species.
    • 2015, E.M. Smith, The Shadow of Olympus, →ISBN, page 203:
      Meanwhile, the female Phobosian who had introduced herself as Jay Jay led the passengers down a long, narrow ramp that was just wide enough for two people to walk side by side.
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