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HELIOSPHERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The region inside the heliopause containing the sun and solar system
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("heliosphere" is a kind of...):
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Meronyms (parts of "heliosphere"):
solar system (the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field)
Holonyms ("heliosphere" is a part of...):
Milky Way; Milky Way Galaxy; Milky Way System (the galaxy containing the solar system; consists of millions of stars that can be seen as a diffuse band of light stretching across the night sky)
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