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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SHELL STAR

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Shell star is a noun.
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WHAT DOES SHELL STAR MEAN IN ENGLISH?

shell star

Shell star

A shell star, also termed Gamma Cassiopeiae variable, is a star having a spectrum that exhibits features indicating a circumstellar disc of gas surrounding the star at the equator. They exhibit irregular variations in their luminosity due to the outflow of matter. The shell stars are fast rotators, giving a partial explanation on the mechanism, but shell stars are still considered enigmatic. Shell stars belong to spectral types O7.5 to F5, but their spectra are characterized by enormously widened absorption lines due to fast rotation and the disc that contributes also to other spectral peculiarities. Rotation velocities are about 200–250 km/s, not far from the point when the rotational acceleration would disrupt the star. The spectra and general qualities of shell stars are hard to interpret, since normal spectral features are overlaid with variable emission, so luminosity class and exact spectral class might easily be misinterpreted.

Definition of shell star in the English dictionary

The definition of shell star in the dictionary is a type of star, usually of spectral type B to F, surrounded by a gaseous shell.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SHELL STAR

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shell-like
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WORDS THAT END LIKE SHELL STAR

binary star
blazing star
child star
dark star
double star
dwarf star
falling star
film star
guest star
media star
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morning star
movie star
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rock star
shooting star
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Synonyms and antonyms of shell star in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «shell star» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SHELL STAR

Find out the translation of shell star to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of shell star from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «shell star» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

壳星
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

shell estrella
570 millions of speakers

English

shell star
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

खोल सितारा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قذيفة نجمة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

оболочка звезды
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

shell estrela
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

শেল তারকা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

coque étoiles
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bintang shell
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Shell- Sterne-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

シェルスター
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쉘 스타
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cangkang lintang
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sao vỏ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஷெல் நட்சத்திரம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

शेल स्टार
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kabuk yıldızı
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

shell stella
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

gwiazda powłoki
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

оболонка зірки
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

coajă stele
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κέλυφος αστέρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

dop ster
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

skal stjärna
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

shell stjerne
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SHELL STAR»

The term «shell star» is normally little used and occupies the 147.653 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHELL STAR»

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Stellar Spectral Classification
There are A-type shell stars, even early-F shell stars, but their numbers are relatively small. We term the type of shell star described in the paragraphs above a classical A-type shell star. The mechanism producing these shells is still unknown, ...
Richard O. Gray, Christopher J. Corbally, 2009
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Be and Shell Stars.
In 1952 Paul W. Merrill noted that it "is not a typical shell star, but rather an object intermediate between an ordinary Be star and a planetary nebula. Perhaps it can be thought of as a shell star whose outer atmosphere is extraordinarily ...
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Mesoamerica After the Decline of Teotihuacan, A.D. 700-900
During this time disjunction occurs as the Teotihuacan star is transformed and absorbed into a Maya star motif which becomes part of the Maya shell-star glyph associated with death, war, sacrifice, and Venus. The shell-star glyph is often ...
Richard A. Diehl, Janet Catherine Berlo, 1989
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An Introduction to Astrophysics
So whether a particular B star will appear as a normal B, a Be or a shell star depends on the presence or absence of some particular entity surrounding the star; that is the amount of material penetrated by the line of sight through the envelope ...
Baidyanath Basu, 2003
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Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 1945
It is interesting that one of the stars studied was a binary star, the companion of the Wolf-Rayet being a shell star, a class to which we will come shortly. In another of the stars studied she found that the shell was expanding at a rate of 3000 ...
Hodgson, J H
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Star Gods of the Maya: Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
compound known as the “shell star,” which is associated with warfare (Fig. 5.70). After studying twenty-five shell-star dates, Arthur Schlak (1996:186, table 1) concluded that all refer to a time when Venus was moving slowly relative to the Sun, ...
Susan Milbrath, 2010
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MotorBoating
MODEL NAME Sportsman 314 Dart Nipigon Sportsman 315 315 Deluxe Shell Star 08 Shell Star l/0 Caliente 0B Caliente l/O Shell Star 08 Shell Star l/O Corsair 05 Corsair l/0 Shell Star President SL 235 X SL 235 C LENGTH 13'9" 14'1" 14'1"  ...
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Spectroscopic Astrophysics: An Assessment of the ...
In a shell star, on the other hand, although the absolute strengths of some of the lines are similar to those in supergiants, the continuous opacity is much reduced and one can see through to the deeper layers of the star where the Stark ...
George H. Herbig, 1970
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Triggered Star Formation in a Turbulent Interstellar Medium ...
Dotted circle indicates the Cepheus flare shell, star symbols show the members of the SU Cas association and other late B-early A type stars located at a distance of about 250 pc. Positions of some molecular clouds are also indicated.
Bruce G. Elmegreen, Jan Palous, 2007
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A Dictionary of Astronomy
Shell galaxies may be the result of a giant elliptical digesting a low-mass companion galaxy. shell star A main-sequence star with a spectral type in the range B-F whose spectrum contains prominent narrow absorption lines originating in ...
Ian Ridpath, 2012

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