ǎi​xīng

dwarf star

矮星 ǎi​xīng
dwarf star noun
A star with relatively small size and low luminosity, including main sequence stars and objects like white dwarfs; formerly used as a general term for main sequence stars.

These ‘failed stars’ are known as brown dwarfs.

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0.056 per million

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BCC Corpus (BLCU)