What is the meaning of planetary?

Of or relating to or resembling the physical or orbital characteristics of a planet or the planets.
- usage: "planetary motion"; "planetary year"
- synonyms: planetal
Of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth or its inhabitants.
- usage: "planetary rumblings and eructations- L. C. Eiseley; "the planetary tilt"; "this terrestrial ball"
- synonyms: terrestrial
Having no fixed course.
- usage: "an erratic comet"; "his life followed a wandering course"; "a planetary vagabond"
- synonyms: erratic, wandering
Involving the entire earth; not limited or provincial in scope.
- usage: "global war"; "global monetary policy"; "neither national nor continental but planetary"; "a world crisis"; "of worldwide significance"
- synonyms: global, world, worldwide, world-wide

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