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PRONUNCIATION OF WHITE DWARF

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White dwarf is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WHITE DWARF MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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White dwarf

A white dwarf, also called a degenerate dwarf, is a stellar remnant composed mostly of electron-degenerate matter. They are very dense; a white dwarf's mass is comparable to that of the Sun, and its volume is comparable to that of the Earth. Its faint luminosity comes from the emission of stored thermal energy. The nearest known white dwarf is Sirius B, 8.6 light years away, the smaller component of the Sirius binary star. There are currently thought to be eight white dwarfs among the hundred star systems nearest the Sun. The unusual faintness of white dwarfs was first recognized in 1910 by Henry Norris Russell, Edward Charles Pickering, and Williamina Fleming;, p. 1 the name white dwarf was coined by Willem Luyten in 1922. White dwarfs are thought to be the final evolutionary state of all stars whose mass is not high enough to become a neutron star—over 97% of the stars in the Milky Way., §1. After the hydrogen–fusing lifetime of a main-sequence star of low or medium mass ends, it will expand to a red giant which fuses helium to carbon and oxygen in its core by the triple-alpha process.

Definition of white dwarf in the English dictionary

The definition of white dwarf in the dictionary is one of a large class of small faint stars of enormous density with diameters only about 1 per cent that of the sun, and masses less than the Chandrasekhar limit. It is thought to mark the final stage in the evolution of a sun-like star.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE WHITE DWARF

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Synonyms and antonyms of white dwarf in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «white dwarf» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WHITE DWARF

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

Translator English - Chinese

白矮星
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enana blanca
570 millions of speakers

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white dwarf
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सफेद बौना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

قزم أبيض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

белый карлик
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

anã branca
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Translator English - Bengali

শ্বেত বামন
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naine blanche
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Translator English - Malay

Kerdil putih
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Translator English - German

weißer Zwerg
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Translator English - Japanese

白色矮星
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Translator English - Korean

백색 왜성
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Translator English - Javanese

Putih kurcaci
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sao lùn trắng
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Translator English - Tamil

வெள்ளை குள்ளன்
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Translator English - Marathi

पांढरा बौना
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Translator English - Turkish

Beyaz cüce
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Translator English - Italian

nana bianca
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Translator English - Polish

biały karzeł
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Translator English - Ukrainian

білий карлик
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Translator English - Romanian

pitică albă
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Translator English - Greek

λευκός νάνος
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Translator English - Afrikaans

witdwerg
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Translator English - Swedish

vit dvärg
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Translator English - Norwegian

hvit dverg
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The term «white dwarf» is regularly used and occupies the 78.861 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WHITE DWARF»

Discover the use of white dwarf in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to white dwarf and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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White Dwarf Atmospheres and Circumstellar Environments
Despite a growing number of white dwarf dust disks that have been observed, little about the origin or evolution of these systems is understood. Often, these disks are pointed to as the observational endpoint for a planetary system similar to the ...
Donald W. Hoard, 2012
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White Dwarf Stars with Some Hydrogen
CHAPTER 3 Chemical Evolution, Cooling and the non-DA gap We have now finished figuring out the Teff — Xsurf relation of a white dwarf with fixed m#. However, we still don't quite know how a "white dwarf with some hydrogen" evolves, ...
Eugene Yu-Yu Chen, 2008
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Suzaku Studies of White Dwarf Stars and the Galactic X-ray ...
2 Review of the Galactic X-ray Background Emission and White Dwarf Binaries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 The Galactic Ridge X-ray Emission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1.1 Discovery and Observational Characteristics . . . . . . . . . 2.1.2 ...
Takayuki Yuasa, 2013
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The White Dwarf: A London Weekly Publication
A London Weekly Publication. Letter to Ldrd Sidmouth. " Most noble Sir, — That which I shall report, would bear no credit, Were not the proof so nigli." BuaaaruBK . My Lord, If your Lordship has ever found a supporter* in the individual who is ...
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Compact Objects in Astrophysics: White Dwarfs, Neutron Stars ...
An Earth-sized white dwarf has a density of 1 ×109 kg/m3. In comparison, the Earth itself has an average density of only 5.4 × 103 kg/m3. That means a white dwarf is a million times as dense. Because a white dwarf is no longer able to create ...
Max Camenzind, 2007
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Stellar Remnants:
As Don Winget has stated many times, the history of star formation in the disk of our galaxy is written in the coolest white dwarf stars. These cool white dwarfs are the oldest stars in the disk of our galaxy; by understanding their statistics, we can  ...
S.D. Kawaler, Georges Meynet, Daniel Schaerer, 1997
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Astrophysics is Easy!: An Introduction for the Amateur ...
mass-radius relationship drops to zero, so that a white dwarf star with a mass equal to the Chandrasekhar limit will shrink to a very small size. But no star with a mass greater than 14M⊙ can be supported against the crush of gravity by the ...
Michael Inglis, 2007
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17th European White Dwarf Workshop
This volume covers a variety of topics, including luminosity function, mass distribution, and populations, White dwarf structure and evolution, White dwarf ages, white dwarf catalogues and surveys, central stars of planetary nebulae, ...
Klaus Werner, Thomas Rauch, 2010
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Observer’s Guide to Stellar Evolution: The Birth, Life, and ...
though the white dwarf, but instead are aligned in orderly rows, rather like a giant crystal lattice. It is appropriate to think of the white dwarf as being "solid", with the degenerate electrons still moving freely in the crystal lattice, just as electrons ...
Mike Inglis, 2003
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White Dwarfs: Cosmological and Galactic Probes: Cosmological ...
The reviews include introductory material that they build upon. The book is suitable and most useful to advanced undergraduates, graduate students and scientific professionals (e.g. astronomers, astrophysicists, cosmologists, physicists).
Edward M. Sion, Stéphane Vennes, Harry L. Shipman, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WHITE DWARF»

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'Cannibal' dwarf star caught in the act of devouring larger companion
"The gravitational effects from the hot and superdense white dwarf are so strong that it has forced the companion star to swell up like a massive balloon and ... «ABC Online, Jul 15»
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What killed the white dwarfs? (Aside from the giant explosion)
This week's issue of Nature is a prime example: two back-to-back papers provide evidence for a white dwarf-companion star explosion and a two-white-dwarf ... «Ars Technica, May 15»
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Dying stars' exodus: Hubble captures 1st ever images of migrating …
For the first time ever NASA astronomers have captured snapshots of white dwarf stars embarking on their 40-million-year epic migration from the "star-studded" ... «RT, May 15»
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Water on white dwarf raises prospects of H2O-rich planets
The white dwarf, an ageing star in decline, had once held water equivalent to about 30-35 percent of that found in Earth's oceans, probably delivered in an ... «Business Insider, May 15»
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White dwarf has Napoleon Complex, destroys passing planet
Researchers have found evidence that a white dwarf star may have ripped apart a planet as it came too close, as seen in this NASA Chandra X-ray Observatory ... «RT, Apr 15»
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Supernova crime scene blames a single white dwarf
Using archival data from the Japan-led Suzaku X-ray satellite, astronomers have determined the pre-explosion mass of a white dwarf star that blew up ... «Astronomy Magazine, Apr 15»
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White Dwarf Stars to Collide in Catastrophic Supernova
A pair of white dwarf stars located deep inside the planetary nebula Henize 2-428 are slowly moving closer and closer towards each other, destined to collide in ... «Nature World News, Feb 15»
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Astronomers capture images of exploding white dwarf fireball
LOS ANGELES, Oct. 27 (UPI) -- The fireball of a nova explosion from a white dwarf star has been captured by astronomers in remarkable detail -- the first time ... «UPI.com, Oct 14»
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White Dwarfs May Hold Nuclear Trigger for Explosive Supernovas
For decades, scientists theorized that about one-quarter of all supernovas, a kind known as type Ia supernovas, involved white dwarfs, the remains of stars that ... «Space.com, Aug 14»
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Astronomers may have found a new zombie star
When most white dwarf stars supernova, they're basically obliterated. These explosions expel most or all of the star's matter into space. But in rare cases (only ... «Washington Post, Aug 14»

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