solar system

1. 1.

   the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field

   Broadersystem

   Part ofheliosphere

   Partsinterplanetary medium

Questions about solar system

What does solar system mean?

solar system means "the sun with the celestial bodies that revolve around it in its gravitational field".

Is solar system a common word?

solar system is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.