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noun white dwarf a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf) 1
noun white dwarf one of a large class of small faint stars of enormous density (on average 108 kg/m3) with diameters only about 1 per cent that of the sun, and masses less than the Chandrasekhar limit (about 1.4 solar masses). It is thought to mark the final stage in the evolution of a sun-like star 0
noun white dwarf a planet-sized, very dense, collapsed star, the fuel of which has been exhausted: initially very bright and hot, it gradually evolves into a black dwarf 0
noun white dwarf (astronomy) A dying star of low or medium mass, more solid and dense but less bright than the sun. 0

before 1920

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First recorded in 1920-25

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