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Uranian   Listen
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Uranian  adj.  (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the planet Uranus; as, the Uranian year.






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"Uranian" Quotes from Famous Books



... a turnover. Three hundred sixty degrees instead of one hundred eighty. Three hundred sixty degrees to leave the nose of The Luck pointing outward toward the stars, instead of properly toward the Sun. A full circle to pile G on G until the Jovian moons were missed, and the Uranian moons and Triton, ...
— Turnover Point • Alfred Coppel

... first in the field in modern times was Ulrichs who, as early as 1862, used the appellation "Uranian" (Uranier), based on the well-known myth in Plato's Banquet. Later he Germanized this term into "Urning" for the male, and "Urningin" for the female, and referred to the condition itself as "Urningtum." He also invented a number of other related terms on the same basis; some of these terms ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis



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