Meaning

2 senses
  1. A small, relatively cool star on the main sequence.

    Roter Zwerg

    кра́сный ка́рликkrásnyj kárlik

    a small, old, relatively cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter

  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see red, dwarf.

Examples

4 sentences
  1. Red dwarves are the smallest stars in which hydrogen is converted into helium.

    deRote Zwerge sind die kleinsten Sterne, in denen Wasserstoff in Helium umgewandelt wird. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  2. Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf, as the smallest active stars are called.

    deProxima Centauri ist ein Roter Zwerg; so werden die kleinsten aktiven Sterne bezeichnet. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  3. About seven out of every ten stars in our Milky Way are so-called red dwarves.

    deEtwa sieben Zehntel aller Sterne unserer Milchstraße sind sogenannte Rote Zwerge. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

  4. Approximately seven out of every ten stars in the Milky Way are so-called red dwarves.

    deEtwa sieben Zehntel aller Sterne unserer Milchstraße sind sogenannte Rote Zwerge. — Pfirsichbaeumchen

Translations

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By meaning 1
small, cool star:
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By meaning 1
small, cool star:

Forms

plural: red dwarfs / red dwarves
Singularred dwarf
Pluralred dwarfs / red dwarves

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a small, old, relatively cool star; approximately 100 times the mass of Jupiter:red dwarf star

Word family

7 related words

See also

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