solar facula

1. 1.

   a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots

   Synonymsfacula

   Broaderspot

Questions about solar facula

What does solar facula mean?

solar facula means "a large bright spot on the sun's photosphere occurring most frequently in the vicinity of sunspots".

What is another word for solar facula?

Close synonyms include facula. 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 solar facula a common word?

solar facula 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.