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Dimidium

The English word “Dimidium” has 1 meaning listed here.

proper noun

  1. 51 Pegasi b, a large hot Jupiter exoplanet, approximately 50 light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Pegasus.

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dīmidium (“half”), referring to the planet's mass of approximately half the mass of Jupiter.

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