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brown dwarf

brown dwarf noun: a starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.

Noun

brown dwarf (plural brown dwarfs or (rare) brown dwarves)

  1. A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.
    • But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades. […] “This places this object right on the lower boundary of allowed stellar masses, and it is in fact...2024 August 21, Ashley Strickland, “An unusual object is moving so fast it could escape the Milky Way. Scientists aren’t certain what it is”, in CNN, archived from the original on 24 Sep 2024

brown dwarf meaning in Hindi and Tamil

brown dwarf in Hindi

starlike object
भूरा बौना तारा bhūrā baunā tārā

brown dwarf in Tamil

பழுப்புநிறக் குறளி

Forms of brown dwarf

pluralbrown dwarfs
plural (rare)brown dwarves

Questions about brown dwarf

What does brown dwarf mean?
Brown dwarf means a starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.
What is brown dwarf in Hindi?
Brown dwarf in Hindi is भूरा बौना तारा (bhūrā baunā tārā). See Brown dwarf meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is brown dwarf?
Brown dwarf is a noun.
What is the plural of brown dwarf?
The plural of brown dwarf is brown dwarfs.

Words near brown dwarf in the dictionary

  1. brown crabs
  2. brown creeper
  3. brown creepers
  4. brown drake
  5. brown drakes
  6. brown dwarf
  7. brown dwarfs
  8. brown dwarves
  9. brown earth
  10. brown envelope journalism
  11. brown envelope syndrome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brown dwarf (page history and authors); brown dwarf (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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