red rectangle
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The nebula and binary star HD 44179.
Example Sentences
- "1987, Beverly T. Lynds, “Optical observations of nebulae”, in A. Dalgarno and David Layzer (eds.), Spectroscopy of astrophysical plasmas, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 12, The Red Rectangle is only one example of an infrared object that is detectable in the infrared because of grain emission."
- "1995, J.R. Miles, P.J. Sarre, and S.M. Scarrott, “Red Rectangle Emission Bands”, in Alexander G.G.M. Tielens and Theodore Peck Snow (eds.), The Diffuse Interstellar Bands, Springer, →ISBN, page 143, The Red Rectangle is a bipolar nebula with a remarkable spectrum in which emission is excited by the light of the central star HD44179."
- "Figure 1 shows obtained images of the Red Rectangle. All of the sources consist of a bright core and an extended nebula."
Etymology
Inflected Forms
the Red Rectangle (canonical)