white dwarf

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   a faint star of enormous density

   Synonymswhite dwarf star

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Questions about white dwarf

What does white dwarf mean?

white dwarf means "a faint star of enormous density".

What is another word for white dwarf?

Close synonyms include white dwarf star. 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 white dwarf a common word?

white dwarf 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.