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- Dictionarystar/stɑː/
noun
- 1. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun. Similar
- 2. a conventional or stylized representation of a star, typically having five or more points: "the walls were painted with silver moons and stars"
verb
- 1. (of a film, play, or other show) have (someone) as a principal performer: "a film starring Liza Minnelli"
- 2. decorate or cover with star-shaped marks or objects: "thick grass starred with flowers"
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STAR definition: 1. a very large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seen from the earth as a point of…. Learn more.
Jun 17, 2024 · star, any massive self-luminous celestial body of gas that shines by radiation derived from its internal energy sources. Of the tens of billions of trillions of stars composing the observable universe, only a very small percentage are visible to the naked eye. Many stars occur in pairs, multiple systems, or star clusters.
star: [noun] a natural luminous body visible in the sky especially at night. a self-luminous gaseous spheroidal celestial body of great mass which produces energy by means of nuclear fusion reactions.
A large, spherical celestial body consisting of a mass of gas that is hot enough to sustain nuclear fusion and thus produce radiant energy. Stars begin their life cycle as clouds of gas and dust called nebulae and develop, through gravitation and accretion, into increasingly hot and dense protostars .
A star twinkles in the night sky. To put it more scientifically, it’s a celestial body of hot gases radiating energy. A star is also a person who dazzles — the star of the show or the star archaeologist.
2. a. a hot gaseous mass, such as the sun, that radiates energy, esp as light and infrared radiation, usually derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior, and in some cases as ultraviolet, radio waves, and X-rays. The surface temperature can range from about 2100 to 40 000°C.
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light.
1. any of the various types of hot, gaseous, self-luminous celestial bodies, as the sun or Polaris, whose energy is derived from nuclear-fusion reactions. 2. any celestial body, except the moon, that appears as a fixed point of light in the night sky: the evening star. 3.
STAR definition: 1. a ball of burning gases that you see as a small point of light in the sky at night 2. a famous…. Learn more.
STAR meaning: 1 : any one of the objects in space that are made of burning gas and that look like points of light in the night sky; 2 : a star or planet especially in a certain position that is believed in astrology to influence people's lives usually plural
