starlike
starlike adjective: resembling a star.
Adjective
starlike (comparative more starlike, superlative most starlike)
- Resembling a star.
- Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.
- For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.2007 September 16, Lawrence K. Altman, “4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize”, in New York Times
- Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
- Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.
- the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings
starlike meaning in Tamil
starlike in Tamil
- விண்மீன் ஒத்த
Forms of starlike
| comparative | more starlike |
|---|---|
| superlative | most starlike |
Origin of starlike
From star + -like.
Words formed from starlike
Questions about starlike
- What does starlike mean?
- Starlike means resembling a star.
- What is starlike in Tamil?
- Starlike in Tamil is விண்மீன் ஒத்த. See Starlike meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is starlike?
- Starlike is an adjective.
Words near starlike in the dictionary
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