white dwarf


white dwarf

noun
plural white dwarfs

Definition of WHITE DWARF

: a small hot whitish star of low intrinsic brightness usually with a mass approximately equal to that of the sun but with a density many times larger

First Known Use of WHITE DWARF

1924

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