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hypermassive

hypermassive adjective: extremely massive.

Adjective

hypermassive (not comparable)

  1. Extremely massive.
    • “Wait a minute. Two years ago Johann Karlsen went down into a hypermassive sun, with a berserker-controlled ship on his tail. Unless that story’s not true?” “It’s perfectly true, except we think now that his launch went into orbit around the hypermass of falling into it.1966, Keith Laumer and Rosel George Brown, Worlds of IF: Earthblood, Paul Hamlyn, page 85
    • The old Population I stars, such as the Sun, would have been formed after this original distribution of the heavy elements. Once the hypermassive Population II stars had all disappeared, no further distribution of metals could occur. Population I supergiants would, however, continue to condense...1968, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy, Paul Hamlyn, page 124

Examples of hypermassive in a sentence

  • Once the hypermassive Population II stars had all disappeared, no further distribution of metals could occur.1968, Gérard de Vaucouleurs, Larousse Encyclopedia of Astronomy, Paul Hamlyn, page 124:
  • Its core and its cause was a hypermassive sun a billion times the weight of Sol.1981, Fred Saberhagen, The Berserker Wars, Pinnacle Books, →ISBN, page 96:
  • If the ejecta which will form spiral arms come from a temporarily hypermassive nucleus the necessary gravitational restraint can be applied to them.1982, Bill Napier, Victor Clube, The Cosmic Serpent: A Catastrophist View of Earth history, Universe Books, page 40:

Origin of hypermassive

From hyper- + massive.

Words formed from hypermassive

Questions about hypermassive

What does hypermassive mean?
Hypermassive means extremely massive.
How do you use hypermassive in a sentence?
Once the hypermassive Population II stars had all disappeared, no further distribution of metals could occur.
What part of speech is hypermassive?
Hypermassive is an adjective.

Words near hypermassive in the dictionary

  1. hypermasculinist
  2. hypermasculinities
  3. hypermasculinity
  4. hypermasculinization
  5. hypermasculinized
  6. hypermassive
  7. hypermassiveness
  8. hypermassivenesses
  9. hypermastia
  10. hypermastias
  11. hypermastigid

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