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white dwarf
noun
astronomy : a star that is at the end of its life and is very hot, small, and dense
plural white dwarfs
Full Definition of WHITE DWARF
: a small hot whitish star of low intrinsic brightness usually with a mass approximately equal to that of the sun but with a density many times larger
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First Known Use of WHITE DWARF
1924
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