What does pluto mean?

Definitions for pluto
ˈplu toʊplu·to

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Plutonoun

    a cartoon character created by Walt Disney

  2. Pluto, Hades, Aides, Aidoneusnoun

    (Greek mythology) the god of the underworld in ancient mythology; brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone

  3. Plutonoun

    a small planet and the farthest known planet from the sun; it has the most elliptical orbit of all the planets

    "Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930"

GCIDE

  1. Plutopr. n.

    The ninth planet of the Solar System, the smallest (5700 km radius) and most distant from the sun. The suggestion has been made that it more closely resembles a large close comet than a planet. Its orbit has an eccentricity of 0.248, larger than that of any other planet; it varies from 4.44 to 7.37 billion km distance from the sun.

Wiktionary

  1. Plutonoun

    Greek and Roman god of the underworld.

  2. Plutonoun

    Originally known as the ninth planet but reclassified in 2006 as a dwarf planet, the brightest and first known Kuiper belt object, represented by the symbol in astronomy and in astrology.

  3. plutoverb

    To demote or devalue something.

  4. Etymology: Πλούτων

Wikipedia

  1. Pluto

    Operation Pluto (Pipeline Under the Ocean or Pipeline Underwater Transportation of Oil, also written Operation PLUTO) was an operation by British engineers, oil companies and the British Armed Forces to construct submarine oil pipelines under the English Channel in support of Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of Normandy during the Second World War. The British War Office estimated that petrol, oil and lubricants would account for more than 60 per cent of the weight of supplies required by the expeditionary forces. Pipelines would reduce the reliance on coastal tankers, which could be affected by bad weather, were subject to air attack, and needed to be offloaded into vulnerable storage tanks ashore. A new kind of pipeline was required which could be rapidly deployed, and two types were developed, named "Hais" and "Hamel" after their inventors. Camouflaged pumping stations were established at Sandown on the Isle of Wight, and at Dungeness on the Kent coast, which were connected to the Avonmouth-Thames pipeline. Two pipeline systems were laid: one, codenamed "Bambi", from Sandown to Cherbourg and the other, "Dumbo", from Dungeness to Boulogne. Deployment of Bambi commenced on 12 August 1944. It was not very successful, delivering only 3,300 long tons (3,400 t) between 22 September, when the first pipeline became operational, and 4 October, when the Bambi project was terminated. The Dumbo system was more successful. The first pipeline commenced pumping on 26 October, and remained in action until the end of the war. By December, a total of 17 pipelines had been laid. The Dumbo system was shut down on 7 August 1945, by which time the pipelines had carried 180 million imperial gallons (820 million litres) of petrol. The Pluto pipelines were responsible for about 8 per cent of the deliveries of petroleum products from the United Kingdom to the Allied Expeditionary Force in North West Europe.

ChatGPT

  1. pluto

    Pluto is a dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt, a region of the solar system beyond the orbit of Neptune. It was originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun upon its discovery by Clyde Tombaugh in 1930, but was reclassified as a "dwarf planet" by the International Astronomical Union in 2006 due its inability to clear its orbit of other debris. Despite its small size, it has five known moons, the largest of which is Charon.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Plutonoun

    the son of Saturn and Rhea, brother of Jupiter and Neptune; the dark and gloomy god of the Lower World

  2. Etymology: [L., fr. Gr. Plou`twn.]

Wikidata

  1. Pluto

    Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-most-massive known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-most-massive body observed directly orbiting the Sun. Originally classified as the ninth planet from the Sun, Pluto was recategorized as a dwarf planet and plutoid owing to the discovery that it is only one of several large bodies within the Kuiper belt. Like other members of the Kuiper belt, Pluto is composed primarily of rock and ice and is relatively small, approximately one-sixth the mass of the Earth's Moon and one-third its volume. It has an eccentric and highly inclined orbit that takes it from 30 to 49 AU from the Sun. This causes Pluto to periodically come closer to the Sun than Neptune. As of 2011, it is 32.1 AU from the Sun. From its discovery in 1930 until 2006, Pluto was classified as a planet. In the late 1970s, following the discovery of minor planet 2060 Chiron in the outer Solar System and the recognition of Pluto's relatively low mass, its status as a major planet began to be questioned. In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, many objects similar to Pluto were discovered in the outer Solar System, notably the scattered disc object Eris in 2005, which is 27% more massive than Pluto. On August 24, 2006, the International Astronomical Union defined what it means to be a "planet" within the Solar System. This definition excluded Pluto as a planet and added it as a member of the new category "dwarf planet" along with Eris and Ceres. After the reclassification, Pluto was added to the list of minor planets and given the number 134340. A number of scientists hold that Pluto should continue to be classified as a planet, and that other dwarf planets should be added to the roster of planets along with Pluto.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Pluto

    god of the nether world, son of Kronos and Rhea, brother of Zeus and Poseidon, and husband of Persephone; on the dethronement of Kronos the universe was divided among themselves by the three brothers, Zeus assuming the dominion of the upper world and Poseidon that of the ocean, leaving the nether kingdom to him, a domain over which and forth of which he ruled with a greater and more undisputed authority than the other two over heaven, earth, and sea.

U.S. National Library of Medicine

  1. Pluto

    The ninth planet in order from the sun. It is one of the five outer planets of the solar system. Its only natural satellite is Charon.

Editors Contribution

  1. Pluto

    A planet in the solar system.

    Spacecraft can visit pluto, New Horizons has been and took pictures of Pluto and its moons.


    Submitted by MaryC on May 3, 2015  

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Mythology

  1. Pluto

    (Plu′to). King of the infernal regions. He was a son of Saturn and Ops, and husband of Proserpine, daughter of Ceres. He is sometimes referred to under the name Dis, and he personifies hell. His principal attendant was the three-headed dog Cerberus, and about his throne were the Eumenides, the Harpies, and the Furies.

    “With equal foot, rich friend, impartial fate Knocks at the cottage and the palace gate. .     .     .     .     . Night soon will seize, and you must go below, To story’d ghosts and Pluto’s house below.” (Creech.)

Who Was Who?

  1. Pluto

    Boss of the underworld until Old Nic got on the job. Also the manufacturer of a morning beverage.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. PLUTO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Pluto is ranked #80926 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Pluto surname appeared 234 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Pluto.

    88.8% or 208 total occurrences were White.
    4.2% or 10 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3.4% or 8 total occurrences were Asian.
    3.4% or 8 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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  2. poult

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of pluto in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of pluto in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of pluto in a Sentence

  1. New Horizons:

    Pluto is showing us a diversity of landforms and complexity of processes that rival anything we’ve seen in the solar system, if an artist had painted this Pluto before our flyby, I probably would have called it over the top — but that’s what is actually there.

  2. Tanguy Bertrand:

    Pluto is covered by exotic-composition ices and its landscape strongly resembles the polar caps on Earth( Greenland and Antarctica), new Horizons even discovered spectacular mountains on Pluto covered by bright deposits, strikingly resembling snow-capped mountain chains seen on Earth.

  3. Alan Stern:

    We're just learning that a lot of planets are small planets, and we didn't know that before, fact is, in planetary science, objects such as Pluto and the other dwarf planets in the Kuiper Belt are considered planets and called planets in everyday discourse in scientific meetings.

  4. John Grunsfeld:

    Pluto has turned out to be an extraordinarily complex, interesting world.

  5. Tanguy Bertrand:

    New Horizons even discovered spectacular mountains on Pluto covered by bright deposits, strikingly resembling snow-capped mountain chains seen on Earth, such a landscape had never been observed elsewhere in the solar system. Could Pluto's atmosphere behave like Earth's ? We discovered that a new and unique( in the solar system) atmospheric process forms these snowy mountains on Pluto.

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