Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

brown dwarf

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.73 in modern English

Syllables: brown d-warf
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

2

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.

Example Sentences

"But none of those brown dwarfs were speeding along on a trajectory that would carry them out of the galaxy like “runaway” hypervelocity stars observed by astronomers in the last two decades. […] “This places this object right on the lower boundary of allowed stellar masses, and it is in fact possible that the mass of the object is slightly below that boundary, which would imply that the object is not a star but a brown dwarf instead.”"

Inflected Forms

brown dwarfs (plural) brown dwarves (plural, rare)

Phrases

sub-brown dwarf red dwarf yellow dwarf white dwarf blue dwarf black dwarf

Frequently Paired Words

sub-brown dwarf red dwarf yellow dwarf white dwarf blue dwarf black dwarf

Questions

What does brown dwarf mean?: A starlike object that contracts to about the volume of Jupiter after its formation phase; its mass may range from several times that of Jupiter, such that it fuses deuterium, up to just below the threshold of sustained hydrogen fusion.

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