double star

1. 1.

   a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation

   Synonymsbinary starbinary

   Broaderstar

   NarrowerAldebaranAlgolAlpha CentauriAltairAntaresEpsilon AurigaeProcyonRigelSiriusVega

Questions about double star

What does double star mean?

double star means "a system of two stars that revolve around each other under their mutual gravitation".

What is another word for double star?

Close synonyms include binary star, binary. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is double star a common word?

double star is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.