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