as in inhabitable
suitable for living in
the frigid Arctic is not habitable for amphibians and reptiles—or for humans, either, for that matter
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In total, the station will then have a habitable volume of 550 cubic meters, capable of accommodating up to 12 people.
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Emilio Cozzi, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
Yet a paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics posits that planets on the inner edge of a solar system’s habitable zone might remain habitable for up to two billion years longer than previously thought.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Together, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.
—Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
This not only gives the telescopes less time to observe more objects but also makes very faint objects such as very early galaxies and potentially habitable exoplanets impossible to see at all; if the object is faint enough, the image will become saturated before the signal becomes clear.
—Katherine Helen Laliotis, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2025
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Emilio Cozzi, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2025
Yet a paper accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics posits that planets on the inner edge of a solar system’s habitable zone might remain habitable for up to two billion years longer than previously thought.
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 23 Dec. 2024
Together, these components could have seeded Earth’s initially barren landscape to produce a habitable world.
—Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2025
This not only gives the telescopes less time to observe more objects but also makes very faint objects such as very early galaxies and potentially habitable exoplanets impossible to see at all; if the object is faint enough, the image will become saturated before the signal becomes clear.
—Katherine Helen Laliotis, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2025
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“Habitable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/habitable. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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