triple star (English, noun)
expansion: triple star (plural triple stars)
Senses:
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Three stars which form a stellar system, such that they orbit the point of equilibrium of their gravitational fields; a trinary star.
topics: astronomy
natural-sciences
glosses: Three stars that appear to be one when seen with the naked eye, either because they orbit one another (trinary stars) or happen to be in the same line of sight even though they are separated by a great distance.
Forms:
form: triple stars
tags: plural