STELLAR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indicating the most important performer or role

Example:

a stellar performance

Synonyms:

leading; prima; star; starring; stellar

Classified under:

Adjectives

Similar:

major (of greater importance or stature or rank)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being or relating to or resembling or emanating from stars

Example:

stellar light

Synonyms:

astral; stellar

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

star ((astronomy) a celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior)

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Context examples:

The presence of warm dust implies that it formed very recently, perhaps in spurts, as chemically enriched material from the two stellar winds collides at different points, mixes, flows away, and cools.

(Hubble Observes One-of-a-Kind Star Nicknamed 'Nasty', NASA)

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have studied one particular explosion that may provide clues to the dynamics of other, much larger stellar eruptions.

("Mini Supernova" Explosion Could Have Big Impact, NASA)

Environmental effects, such as interactions with the interstellar medium and forces due to stellar companions, may have long-term implications for the evolution of such systems.

(Hubble Finds Huge System of Dusty Material Enveloping the Young Star HR 4796A, NASA)

The method used by the scientists consists of stellar occultation, which is when these objects move in front of a star, like a small eclipse.

(Brazil astronomers discover ring around dwarf planet near Pluto, Agência Brasil)

Even though the northern area is older than the southern region, the radiation and stellar winds from previous generations of stars has disturbed the material there, preventing it from collapsing to form the next generation.

(SOFIA Reveals How the Swan Nebula Hatched, NASA)

Located 226 light-years away in the constellation Taurus, the planet lies in a stellar system known as K2-288, which contains a pair of dim, cool M-type stars separated by about 5.1 billion miles (8.2 billion kilometers) - roughly six times the distance between Saturn and the Sun.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)

One of the largest gaps lies in a certain type of black hole: intermediate-mass black holes that fall between supermassive (at least a million times greater than our sun) and stellar (smaller, though still 5 to 50 times greater than the mass of our sun) black holes.

(Observing 'black hole symphony' using gravitational wave astronomy, National Science Foundation)

And though he wasn’t the first or only person to observe this stellar spectacle, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe wrote a book about his extensive observations of the event, gaining the honor of it being named after him.

(Chandra Movie Captures Expanding Debris from a Stellar Explosion, NASA)

Your stellar days for money talks will be March 11 or March 20.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Until just a few years ago, stellar black holes could only be discovered when they gobbled up gas from a companion star.