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Meaning of "supergiant" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SUPERGIANT

supergiant  [ˈsuːpəˌdʒaɪənt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SUPERGIANT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Supergiant is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SUPERGIANT MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Supergiant

Supergiants are among the most massive and most luminous stars. They occupy the top region of the Hertzsprung–Russell diagram with bolometric absolute magnitudes between −5 and −12 and temperatures from about 3,500K to over 20,000K.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SUPERGIANT


affiant
əˈfaɪənt
Bryant
ˈbraɪənt
client
ˈklaɪənt
compliant
kəmˈplaɪənt
defiant
dɪˈfaɪənt
eobiont
ˌiːəʊˈbaɪənt
giant
ˈdʒaɪənt
hiant
ˈhaɪənt
incompliant
ˌɪnkəmˈplaɪənt
multiclient
ˌmʌltɪˈklaɪənt
naiant
ˈnaɪənt
olefiant
ˌəʊlɪˈfaɪənt
pliant
ˈplaɪənt
reliant
rɪˈlaɪənt
riant
ˈraɪənt
scient
ˈsaɪənt
self-reliant
ˌsɛlfrɪˈlaɪənt
sient
ˈsaɪənt
uncompliant
ˌʌnkəmˈplaɪənt
unpliant
ʌnˈplaɪənt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SUPERGIANT

superfluously
superfluousness
superflux
superfoetation
superfood
superfrontal
superfund
superfuse
superfusion
supergene
superglacial
superglue
supergood
supergovernment
supergraphics
supergrass
supergravity
supergroup
supergrowth
supergun

WORDS THAT END LIKE SUPERGIANT

allegiant
brilliant
covariant
criant
defoliant
deviant
exfoliant
gas giant
humiliant
invariant
irradiant
luxuriant
mediant
officiant
radiant
red giant
sharia-compliant
sleeping giant
valiant
variant

Synonyms and antonyms of supergiant in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «supergiant» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SUPERGIANT

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

Translator English - Chinese

超巨星
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

supergigante
570 millions of speakers

English

supergiant
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

supergiant
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

العملاق
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

сверхгигант
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

supergigante
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অতিদানব
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

supergéante
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Supergiant
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Riesen
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

超巨星
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

초거성
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Supergiant
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

siêu khổng lồ
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

supergiant
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

Supergiant
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

süperdev
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

supergigante
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

supergiant
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

сверхгигант
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

supergiganta
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υπεργίγαντα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

superreuse
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

superjätte
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

superkjempe
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of supergiant

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERGIANT»

The term «supergiant» is quite widely used and occupies the 50.895 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SUPERGIANT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about supergiant

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SUPERGIANT»

Discover the use of supergiant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to supergiant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Science of Earth Systems
Giant. and. Supergiant. Stars. Very large stars that are in the later stages of their lives are called red giants. These stars form when the aging star begins to expand as it uses up its fuel. This causes the star to enlarge and to shine more brightly.
Stephen D. Butz, 2002
2
Interconnexion Entre la Formation D'étoiles Massives, Le ...
2.3 Multiple clustered massive stars make supergiant shells Supergiant shells are the largest coherent interstellar shell structures in a galaxy, and they provide the most likely sites for blowouts into the halo. They play an important role in the ...
D. Kunth, 1996
3
Encyclopedia of Space and Astronomy
Once the hydrogen in the large star's core is fused into helium, it becomes a red supergiant—a stellar object similar to the red giant star previously mentioned, only larger. However, unlike a red giant, the much larger red supergiant star has  ...
Joseph A. Angelo, 2009
4
Optics in Astronomy
One of the embedded stars has a blue colour of B - R = 0.2 mag and R=20.4 mag and we classify this as a candidate blue supergiant; the other three have redder ( B - R = 1.5 mag) colours and an average magnitude of R = 21.0 mag and we ...
J. V. Wall, 1993
5
The Supernova Story
Like other massive stars, SK -69 202 had spent a million twilight years as a red supergiant, swollen to several hundred times its normal size, consuming a dwindling supply of fusible nuclei in its core. Finally, in the last 100,000 years of its life, ...
Laurence A. Marschall, 1988
6
Toward a New Millennium in Galaxy Morphology: Proceedings of ...
Comparisons between the Ha image (Figure 2) and the HI map of the LMC show that only some of the supergiant shells (e.g., LMC1, LMC4. and LMC5) have corresponding H I holes. Comparisons between the Ha image (Figure 2) and the soft ...
David L. Block, Ivânio Puerari, Alan Stockton, 2000
7
Neutron Stars and Their Birth Events: [proceedings of the ...
In the current picture there is a blue supergiant wind (-6X10~6 M0 yr"1) close to the supernova, extending out to Rs~5xl017 cm. Inside this wind there may be regions of higher densities due to transient mass ejections of the presupernova, and ...
Wolfgang Kundt, 1990
8
Nuclei in the Cosmos V: Proceedings of the International ...
Nucleosynthesis. in. Red. Giant. and. Supergiant. Stars. Mounib F. El Eid1, Arthur E. Champagne2 and Wissam Shaya1 1 Department of Physics, American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon 2 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,  ...
Nikos Prantzos, Sotiris Harissopulos, 1998
9
Stellar Astrophysics for the Local Group: VIII Canary ...
In this range, mass loss on and near the main sequence is not high enough to remove all the outer envelope, and thus the star rapidly becomes a red supergiant because the intermediate convective zone is small or absent [effect ( Hi)]. The star ...
A. Aparicio, A. Herrero, F. Sánchez, 1998
10
Star Formation, Galaxies and the Interstellar Medium: ...
H II supergiant shells Observational evidence has been accumulated during the last few years for coherent structures in the interstellar medium having sizes of several hundred parsec. While in some spiral galaxies holes in the HI structure ...
José Franco, Federico Ferrini, G. TENORIO-TAGLE (Ed), 1993

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SUPERGIANT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term supergiant is used in the context of the following news items.
1
In a Very, Very Welcome Surprise, Supergiant's 'Transistor' Has Just …
Transistor [$9.99], the great A/RPG from Supergiant Games, has just appeared on the App Store this morning. I had been waiting for this game to appear on the ... «Touch Arcade, Jun 15»
2
Supergiant has sold over 600k copies of Transistor so far
Newsbrief: Supergiant's sophomore effort Transistor has sold over 600,000 copies across PC and PlayStation 4 since its launch last May, according to a post on ... «Gamasutra, Jan 15»
3
Supernova Puzzle Solved --"The Disappearing Yellow Supergiant"
According to the standard theory, which is only applicable to isolated stars, only cool and extended (red supergiants) or hot and blue (Wolf-Rayet stars) are able ... «The Daily Galaxy, Sep 14»
4
Why The Destruction Of A Blue Supergiant Star Is Unlike Any Other
The recent detection of a gamma-ray burst from a massive blue supergiant is helping astronomers understand how the universe's primordial stars ended their ... «io9, Jul 14»
5
Red supergiant replaced its core with a neutron star
A red supergiant star lights up a cloud of dust. Without detailed spectral information, it's impossible to tell whether these stars have swallowed one of their ... «Ars Technica, Jun 14»
6
Bizarre hybrid star found, it's a supergiant with a neutron star inside
Called a Thorne-Żytkow object, this is specifically a red giant or supergiant that has swallowed a neutron star, and it was first proposed by the two named ... «Geek, Jun 14»
7
Transistor review (PC): Lightning strikes twice for Supergiant
Transistor has the unenviable role of following up Supergiant Games' debut hit Bastion, a game which received nearly unanimous praise from critics and fans ... «Digital Spy UK, May 14»
8
Transistor's New Recursion Mode Revealed
By Seth G. MacySupergiant Games revealed today "Recursion Mode" in its upcoming game, Transistor. "Recursion mode is unlocked after you finish Transistor's ... «IGN, May 14»
9
Why Supergiant ditched publishers for the release of Transistor …
Transistor is the first self-published release from Bastion developer SuperGiant Games. Dave Cook speaks with Greg Kasavin about how it feels to go it alone, ... «VG247, May 14»
10
Supergiant surprise: Transistor releasing in May
Newsbrief: Bastion studio Supergiant Games surprised press and players alike over the weekend, revealing that its second game Transistor, thought to be still ... «Gamasutra, Apr 14»

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« EDUCALINGO. Supergiant [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/supergiant>. Apr 2024 ».
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