starlike
adjEtymology From star + -like.
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Resembling a star.
- Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.
- For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.2007 September 16, Lawrence K. Altman, “4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize”, in New York Times:
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Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
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Geometry, Mathematics, Sciences Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.
- the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings
- Derived terms
- starlikeness, unstarlike