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superbursting

superbursting adjective: producing a superburst.

Adjective

superbursting (not comparable)

  1. Producing a superburst.
    • Last summer's featured creature was Caspar Weinberger's secret (and secretly recorded) speech. He spelled out why his administration is so fully committed to a superbursting armageddon program.1985, Raymond Barrio, A Political Portfolio, page 82
    • ... how observations of quasi-persistent transient neutron stars probe the equation of state of dense matter; and how these observations compare with complimentary studies of quasi-persistent transients and superbursting neutron stars.2008, Rudy Wijnands, Diego Altamirano, Paolo Soleri, A decade of accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars, →ISBN

Origin of superbursting

From super- + bursting.

Questions about superbursting

What does superbursting mean?
Superbursting means producing a superburst.
What part of speech is superbursting?
Superbursting is an adjective.

Words near superbursting in the dictionary

  1. superbungalows
  2. superbuoyant
  3. superbureaucrat
  4. superbureaucrats
  5. superburst
  6. superbursting
  7. superbursts
  8. superbus
  9. superbuses
  10. superbusiness
  11. superbusy

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