multiple star

noun

: several stars in close proximity that appear to form a single system

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Unrivaled had successful debut despite absence of multiple stars Monday’s championship was a fitting conclusion to the league’s debut season. Ben Pickman, The Athletic, 18 Mar. 2025 Of course, Martin and Short played right into the bit, with Short playfully falling to the floor after joking about how heavy the trophy was (multiple stars remarked about the weight of the statue during the live ceremony). Jodi Guglielmi, Rolling Stone, 12 Mar. 2025 However, his team considered the simplest case of just one star forming in each clump, whereas theoretical simulations suggest multiple star systems to be the norm; more than half of all stars in the sky have one or more siblings. Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 12 Mar. 2025 The simulations also only modeled the formation of one star at a time, when consensus holds that the early universe was quite claustrophobic, with multiple stars forming in close proximity. Conor Feehly, Scientific American, 4 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for multiple star

Word History

First Known Use

1786, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of multiple star was in 1786

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“Multiple star.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/multiple%20star. Accessed 29 Mar. 2025.

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