gas giant

英语

词源

源自 gas +‎ giant、由美国的科幻小说作家James Blish造出，此词最早出现在1952年，源于1941年短篇小说《Solar Plexus》的重写版本。

名词

gas giant (复数 gas giants)

1. (天文学) 气态巨行星

   近义词：gas giant plant、Jovian planet

   • 1954, James Blish, “Solar Plexus”, 出自 Beyond Human Ken, Random House，第 106 页:

     A quick glance over the boards revealed that there was a magnetic field of some strength near by, one that didn't belong to the invisible gas giant revolving half a million miles away.

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   • 2008, BioWare, Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts, →ISBN, →OCLC，PC，幕：Altanorch:

     Altanorch is a small but typical hydrogen-helium gas giant with no outstanding features. Its combination of strong magnetic field and relatively shallow gravity well make it a popular "stopover" world for discharging FTL drive cores.

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   • 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, 出自 American Scientist, 第 101 卷, 第 3 期，第 184 页:

     In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter.

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上位词

• giant planet

下位词

• Jupiter
• Saturn

同类词汇

• terrestrial planet / rocky planet
  • silicate planet / silicon planet
  • carbide planet / carbon planet
• major planet

相关词汇

• ice giant

参见

• dwarf planet
• minor planet
• Neptune （冰巨星）
• Uranus （冰巨星）