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avaruus — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • extraterrestrial adj Originating from outside Earth, especially from another planet or outer space.
  • space noun The vast expanse beyond Earth's atmosphere where stars, planets, and other celestial bodies exist.
  • universe noun All of space, time, matter, and energy that exists.

Senses

avaruus is used for these senses in English:

  • extraterrestrial Originating from outside of the Earth's atmosphere, from space, or from another planet; alien to Earth or its environment.
  • space The near-vacuum in which planets, stars and other celestial objects are situated; the universe beyond the earth's atmosphere. [from 17thc.]
  • space A physical extent across two or three dimensions (sometimes for or to do something). [from 14thc.]
  • space (geometry) A set of points, each of which is uniquely specified by a number (the dimensionality) of coordinates.
  • space (countable, mathematics) A generalized construct or set whose members have some property in common; typically there will be a geometric metaphor allowing these members to be viewed as "points". Often used with a restricting modifier describing the members (e.g. vector space), or indicating the inventor of the construct (e.g. Hilbert space). [from 20thc.]
  • spaciousness The state or quality of being spacious.
  • universe Everything under consideration.

extraterrestrial — full definition

  1. adj Originating from outside Earth, especially from another planet or outer space.
  2. noun A being from outside Earth; an alien.

space — full definition

  1. noun The vast expanse beyond Earth's atmosphere where stars, planets, and other celestial bodies exist.
  2. noun An area or extent, physical or otherwise, that something occupies or could occupy.
  3. noun A gap between words, characters, or objects.
  4. verb To arrange things with gaps between them.

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