Saturn
noun
- Rom. Myth. the god of agriculture: identified with the Greek Cronus
- the second largest planet of the solar system and the sixth in distance from the sun: it has a thin, icy ring system around its equator: diameter, c. 120,540 km (c. 74,900 mi); period of revolution, 29.46 earth years; period of rotation, 10.66 hours; 47 satellites; symbol, ♄
- Alchemy lead (sense )
See Saturn in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(sătˈərn)
noun- Roman Mythology The god of agriculture.
- The sixth planet from the sun and the second largest in the solar system, having a sidereal period of revolution about the sun of 29.5 years at a mean distance of about 1,426,000,000 kilometers (886,000,000 miles), a mean diameter of approximately 120,000 kilometers (74,000 miles), and a mass 95 times that of Earth.
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