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solar

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1. solar - Noun

2. solar - Adjective

Meaning

A loft or upper chamber; a garret room.

Of or pertaining to the sun; proceeding from the sun; as, the solar system; solar light; solar rays; solar influence. See Solar system, below.

Born under the predominant influence of the sun.

Measured by the progress or revolution of the sun in the ecliptic; as, the solar year.

Produced by the action of the sun, or peculiarly affected by its influence.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. Dan Quayle

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance. Isaac Newton

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. Ralph Nader

Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules - and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress. Kurt Vonnegut

There seems to be no end to the senseless wickedness done on this little planet in a minor solar system, and we puny mortals appear to be decreasing in importance so far as the universe is concerned. Alec Guinness

My first published novel was written for teenagers, and there were rules laid down by the publisher: no sex, no smoking, no swearing. I blew up entire solar systems, I consigned billions of people to horrible death; they didn't seem to mind that at all. But no hanky-panky. Ben Bova

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