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White Dwarf
see synonyms of white dwarfNoun
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
White Dwarf
see synonyms of white dwarfnoun
one of a large class of small faint stars of enormous density (on average 108 kg/m3) with diameters only about 1 per cent that of the sun, and masses less than the Chandrasekhar limit (about 1.4 solar masses). It is thought to mark the final stage in the evolution of a sun-like star
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White Dwarf
see synonyms of white dwarf a planet-sized, very dense, collapsed star, the fuel of which has been exhausted: initially very bright and hot, it gradually evolves into a black dwarf
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White Dwarf
see synonyms of white dwarfn.
The collapsed remnant core of a low-mass star that has ejected its outer layers and can no longer sustain nuclear fusion. White dwarf stars are extremely dense, having no empty space between atoms, but lack the mass to reach the even more extremely dense states of a neutron star or black hole.
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