Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Planetarium \Plan`e*ta"ri*um\, n. [NL.: cf. F. plan['e]taire.
See {Planetary}.]
An orrery. See {Orrery}.
Source : WordNet®
planetarium
n 1: a building housing an instrument for projecting the
positions of the planets onto a domed ceiling
2: an optical device for projecting images of celestial bodies
and other astronomical phenomena onto the inner surface of
a hemispherical dome
3: an apparatus or model for representing the solar systems
[also: {planetaria} (pl)]