Meaning

1 senses
  1. A large red coloured star with a lower surface temperature than many stars, being at the final stage of moderately massive main-sequence stars.

    Roter Riese

    кра́сный гига́нтkrásnyj gigánt

    a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun

Examples

2 sentences
  1. The sun will become a red giant in about 5 billion years.

    deDie Sonne wird in circa fünf Milliarden Jahren zu einem roten Riesen werden. — raggione

  2. A symbiotic star system is a binary star system that is composed of a red giant and a white dwarf.

Translations

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Forms

plural: red giants
Singularred giant
Pluralred giants

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • a large, old, luminous star; has a relatively low surface temperature and a diameter large relative to the sun:red giant star

See also

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