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HABITABILITY

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Suitability for living in or onplay

Synonyms:

habitability; habitableness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("habitability" is a kind of...):

fitness; fittingness (the quality of being suitable)

Derivation:

habitable (fit for habitation)

Credits

 Context examples: 

An international team led by researchers at the Marseille Astrophysics Laboratory (CNRS/Aix-Marseille Université) has determined the planet’s dimensions and properties of its surface, which actually favor its habitability.

(Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Could be Habitable, NASA)

Using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have conducted the first search for atmospheres around temperate, Earth-sized planets beyond our solar system and found indications that increase the chances of habitability on two exoplanets.

(Hubble Telescope Makes First Atmospheric Study of Earth-Sized Exoplanets, NASA)

This planet, called Proxima b, is in an orbit that would allow it to have liquid water on its surface, thus raising the question of its habitability.

(Planet Orbiting Nearest Star Could be Habitable, NASA)




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