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fixed star

fixed star noun: a star whose movement cannot be seen from Earth.

Noun

fixed star (plural fixed stars)

  1. A star whose movement cannot be seen from Earth.

fixed star meaning in Tamil, Indonesian, Persian and Vietnamese

fixed star in Tamil

நிலையான நட்சத்திரம்

fixed star in Indonesian

distant star
bintang tetap, sabitah

fixed star in Persian

distant star
بیابانی bîyâbânî, ایستاده istâde

fixed star in Vietnamese

distant star
hằng tinh

Forms of fixed star

pluralfixed stars

Origin of fixed star

Originally so named as to distinguish the stars that appear to have a fixed position on the firmament from the “wandering stars”, i.e., the planets.

Questions about fixed star

What does fixed star mean?
Fixed star means a star whose movement cannot be seen from Earth.
What is fixed star in Tamil?
Fixed star in Tamil is நிலையான நட்சத்திரம். See Fixed star meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is fixed star?
Fixed star is a noun.
What is the plural of fixed star?
The plural of fixed star is fixed stars.

Words near fixed star in the dictionary

  1. fixed set
  2. fixed sets
  3. fixed someone's clock
  4. fixed someone's flint
  5. fixed someone's wagon
  6. fixed star
  7. fixed stars
  8. fixed term
  9. fixed terms
  10. fixed the roof while the sun was shining
  11. fixed to

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fixed star (page history and authors); fixed star (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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