Explore Theia through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like thea or titaness. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Theia in a sentence
Theia meaning
- A Titan, the sister-wife of Hyperion.
- An Oceanid nymph (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys), the mother of the Cercopes by Oceanus.
- A hypothesised Mars-sized planet of the early solar system thought to have collided with the Earth to produce the Moon.
Using Theia
- The main meaning on this page is: A Titan, the sister-wife of Hyperion. | An Oceanid nymph (daughter of Oceanus and Tethys), the mother of the Cercopes by Oceanus. | A hypothesised Mars-sized planet of the early solar system thought to have collided with the Earth to produce the Moon.
- Useful related words include: thea, titaness.
- In the example corpus, theia often appears in combinations such as: theia collided, of theia.
Context around Theia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Theia
- In this selection, "theia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 27.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, nosaukumu, named, planet, collided, created and used stand out and add context to how "theia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include ancient planet theia which technically and ar nosaukumu theia the silver. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "theia" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with theia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The moon is thought to have formed in a collision between the early Earth and Theia. (16 words)
The collision speed may have been higher than originally assumed, and this higher velocity may have totally destroyed Theia. (19 words)
Theia is thought to have struck the Earth at an oblique angle when the latter was nearly fully formed. (19 words)
Estimates based on computer simulations of such an event suggest that some twenty percent of the original mass of Theia would have ended up as an orbiting ring of debris around the earth, and about half of this matter coalesced into the Moon. (43 words)
The prevailing theory, known as the “Giant Impact Hypothesis,” has claimed that the was formed after a massive collision between Earth and the ancient planet Theia (which technically has never been proven to exist). (34 words)
According to research on the subject that is based on new simulations at the University of Bern by physicist Andreas Reufer and his colleagues, Theia collided directly with Earth instead of barely swiping it. (34 words)
Example sentences (14)
About 60 million years later collision between the infant Earth and a Mars-sized body called Theia created the Moon.
Arī "Radio Nabas" topā iekļuvušais singls "Set" oriģināli paredzēts kā trešdaļa no gabala ar nosaukumu "Theia / The Silver Cord / Set".
Theia used the Harp and the Horn to open a portal to Hel, having learned that the planet had once overthrown the Asteri, and began plotting with one of its princes, Aidas.
Then, about 4.4 billion years ago, a Mars-sized protoplanet named Theia collided with our world to create the Earth-moon system.
The prevailing theory, known as the “Giant Impact Hypothesis,” has claimed that the was formed after a massive collision between Earth and the ancient planet Theia (which technically has never been proven to exist).
The moon is thought to have formed in a collision between the early Earth and Theia.
The third is to run Eclipse Che version 7 or later (see the next section), which uses Theia as its UI instead of the Java UI used in older versions of Che.
According to research on the subject that is based on new simulations at the University of Bern by physicist Andreas Reufer and his colleagues, Theia collided directly with Earth instead of barely swiping it.
Descendants of the Titans The Titans, Oceanus, Hyperion, Coeus, and Cronus married their sisters Tethys, Theia, Phoebe and Rhea, and Crius married his half-sister Eurybia, the daughter of Gaia and Pontus.
Estimates based on computer simulations of such an event suggest that some twenty percent of the original mass of Theia would have ended up as an orbiting ring of debris around the earth, and about half of this matter coalesced into the Moon.
In this scenario, gravitational perturbations by planetesimals caused Theia to depart from its stable Lagrangian location, and subsequent interactions with proto-Earth led to a collision between the two bodies.
In this scenario, the mass of Theia was approximately 10% of that of Earth, it impacted Earth with a glancing blow, and some of its mass merged with Earth.
The collision speed may have been higher than originally assumed, and this higher velocity may have totally destroyed Theia.
Theia is thought to have struck the Earth at an oblique angle when the latter was nearly fully formed.
Common combinations with theia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- theia collided 2×
- of theia 2×