supernova

supernova
n. (Astronomy) extremely bright star that has exploded due to gravitational collapse of the star's core (characterized by brightness that is up to 100 million times that of the Sun)

English contemporary dictionary. 2014.

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  • supernova — 1934, formed from SUPER (Cf. super ) + NOVA (Cf. nova) …   Etymology dictionary

  • supernova — |ó| s. f. [Astronomia] Termo impróprio aplicado a certas categorias de estrelas, análogas às novae, que uma espécie de explosão esvazia de uma só vez de toda a sua energia nuclear e que apresentam sutilmente uma magnitude considerável …   Dicionário da Língua Portuguesa

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  • supernova — sustantivo femenino 1. Área: astronomía Estrella en explosión que aumenta repentina y considerablemente la magnitud de su luz, en mayor medida que la nova …   Diccionario Salamanca de la Lengua Española

  • supernova — ► NOUN (pl. supernovae or supernovas) Astronomy ▪ a star that undergoes a catastrophic explosion, becoming suddenly very much brighter …   English terms dictionary

  • supernova — [so͞o΄pərnō′və] n. pl. supernovae [so͞o΄pər nō′vē] or supernovas [ModL: see SUPER & NOVA] a rare, extremely bright nova that suddenly increases up to a billion times in brightness and reaches an absolute magnitude of c. 16 …   English World dictionary

  • Supernova — This article is about the astronomical event. For other uses, see Supernova (disambiguation). Multiwavelength X ray, infrared, and optical compilation image of Kepler s supernova remnant, SN 1604. A supernova is a stellar explosion that is more… …   Wikipedia

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