Supergiant Definition

so͝opər-jīənt
supergiant, supergiants
noun
An immense and extremely luminous star, as Betelgeuse or Antares, that has a diameter at least 100 times that of the sun and that is 100 to more than 10,000 times as bright.
Webster's New World

(astronomy): A very large star having a mass between 10 and 70 solar masses.

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Other Word Forms of Supergiant

Noun

Singular:
supergiant
Plural:
supergiants

Supergiant Sentence Examples

  • Thus the star expends energy at a very high rate and may well become a red supergiant.

  • Another puzzle is that the observations of the star just prior to the explosion show that it was a blue supergiant.

  • A 10 solar mass star might be over 10000 times as luminous and shine as a supergiant star.

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