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English
Adjective
uranian (not comparable)
- (mineralogy) Containing hexavalent uranium.
- Alternative letter-case form of Uranian
1927, Robert Briffault, “The Great Mothers”, in The Mothers: A Study of the Origins of Sentiments and Institutions, volume III, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC, pages 146–147:hose deities which are called ‘chthonic’ or earthly are, as a matter of fact, not in any sense deities of the earth. They are, in one of their aspects associated with the ‘underworld,’ but that underworld is but a segment of their cycle; they are deities of the underworld not because they appertain to the earth or are in any sense a personification of it, but because they are, on the contrary, heavenly bodies which, in the course of their cycle, pass under the eart. They are therefore just as much ‘uranian’ as are the Olympians.
2007 September 28, Inke de Pater, H. B. Hammel, Mark R. Showalter, Marcos A. van Dam, “The Dark Side of the Rings of Uranus”, in Science, volume 317, number 5846, Washington, D.C.: American Association for the Advancement of Science, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1888:Twice during a uranian year, the rings appear edge-on for a brief period, referred to as a ring plane crossing (RPX).
Translations
containing hexavalent uranium
Romanian
Etymology
From Uranus + -ean.
Adjective
uranian m or n (feminine singular uraniană, masculine plural uranieni, feminine and neuter plural uraniene)
- cosmic
Declension