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Any star whose brightness varies.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: astronomy, natural-sciences
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
a star that varies noticeably in brightness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: variable
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: star
Narrower terms: Polaris, North Star, pole star, polar star, polestar
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
26 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Azerbaijani:
dəyişən ulduz
— star whose brightness varies
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Bengali:
বিষমতারা
(biśomtara)
— star whose brightness varies
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Bulgarian:
променлива звезда
(promenliva zvezda)
— star whose brightness varies
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Chinese Mandarin:
變星 /变星
(biànxīng)
— star whose brightness varies
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Dutch:
variabele ster
— star whose brightness varies
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Dutch:
veranderlijke ster
— star whose brightness varies
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Finnish:
muuttuva tähti
— star whose brightness varies
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Finnish:
muuttuja
— star whose brightness varies
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French:
étoile variable
— star whose brightness varies
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Greek:
μεταβλητός αστέρας
(metavlitós astéras)
— star whose brightness varies
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Irish:
réalta athraitheach
— star whose brightness varies
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Japanese:
変光星
(henkōsei)
— star whose brightness varies
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Kazakh:
айнымалы жұлдыз
(ainymaly jūldyz)
— star whose brightness varies
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Korean:
변광성
(byeon'gwangseong)
— star whose brightness varies
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Kyrgyz:
өзгөрмө жылдыз
(özgörmö jıldız)
— star whose brightness varies
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Malayalam:
ചരനക്ഷത്രം
(caranakṣatraṁ)
— star whose brightness varies
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Persian:
ستاره متغیر
— star whose brightness varies
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Polish:
gwiazda zmienna
— star whose brightness varies
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Portuguese:
estrela variável
— star whose brightness varies
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Scots:
variable starn
— star whose brightness varies
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Serbo-Croatian:
променљива звезда
(promenljiva zvezda)
— star whose brightness varies
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Swedish:
variabel stjärna
— star whose brightness varies
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Tagalog:
aligang tala
— star whose brightness varies
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Turkish:
değişen yıldız
— star whose brightness varies
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Uzbek:
oʻzgaruvchan yulduz
— star whose brightness varies
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Vietnamese:
sao biến quang
— star whose brightness varies