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jovian

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for jovian.

Editorial note

The higher population of Mars due to agriculture and vast potential living space will probably mean political domination of the Jovian moons by Mars.

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Quick take

A male given name from Latin

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of jovian gathered in one view.

noun

A male given name from Latin

noun

Flavius Jovianus Augustus (331–364), a Roman emperor.

adjective

Alternative form of Jovian. [(astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.]

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for jovian.

noun

A male given name from Latin

noun

Flavius Jovianus Augustus (331–364), a Roman emperor.

adjective

Alternative form of Jovian. [(astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.]

adjective

(astronomy) Pertaining to the planet Jupiter.

Example sentences

1

The higher population of Mars due to agriculture and vast potential living space will probably mean political domination of the Jovian moons by Mars.

2

The Jovian system isn't necessarily intrinsically hostile, it's just this puts Earth way too close to it.

3

Ganymede is the exception here, due to the fact that it is the only Jovian moon with it's own magnetosphere.

4

Even the jovian moons MAY be habitable, but living there would certainly not be a pleasure.

5

Also Jovian Nix, which is great if someone is already invested in that ecosystem.

6

I use Heroic Launcher to play Epic Game Store games in the SteamOS interface in my Jovian box.

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It's an interesting finding, but Jovian comets are one population of survivors.

8

Maybe only 1% of stellar systems are arranged appropriately with a Jovian planet to sweep the inner system clean of killer comets and meteors.

9

I wonder if I am the only one bothered by the Jovian theme.

10

Thinking about trying Jovian on my Steam deck.

11

I just reinstalled my NixOS gaming thing with Jovian from scratch.

12

* Callisto Advantages: the only Jovian moon we can colonize (it's away from the radiations of Jupiter), water and rocks we can mine, would enable the robotic mining of all Jovian moons.

Quote examples

1

Yeah, I was happily surprised to be reminded of that when I set up my NixOS Jovian box that I “consolified” by having it boot into Gamescope and the SteamOS interface.

2

It's like Jovian in the sense that it takes the "immutable" (for some reason I have heard it being called "atomic" too) approach to installing things.

3

I like Clifford Simak's "City" where the vast majority of the human race emigrates to Jupiter to live as hunter-gatherers (because Jovian life is so much more pleasant than human life) leaving Earth to the dogs, robots, and ants.

4

Isn't it possible that early Earth contained many times as much H2O as it does now (like some of those Jovian satellites that are covered in hundreds of miles of ice), and what we have now is simply what's left after the majority "boiled off"?

Proper noun examples

1

Jovian is a NixOS module that sets up a SteamOS-like experience on top of your existing NixOS config.

2

They tend to have large (often super-Jovian) planets close to their sun, and often multiple planets closer to their sun than Mercury.

3

I wanted a Linux gaming machine, but given my recent admission into the cult of NixOS, I went with Jovian.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use jovian in a sentence?

The higher population of Mars due to agriculture and vast potential living space will probably mean political domination of the Jovian moons by Mars.

What does jovian mean?

A male given name from Latin

What part of speech is jovian?

jovian is commonly used as noun, adjective.