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supersolar

adj — 2 senses

supersolar

adj

Etymology From super- + solar.

1

Having features greater than those of the sun.

  • The heat of a white dwarf is supersolar.
2

Above the sun.

  • The kingly bard / Must smite the chords rudely and hard, / As with hammer or with mace; / That they may render back / Artful thunder, which conveys / Secrets of the solar track, / Sparks of the supersolar blaze.1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Merlin. I.”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, pages 180–181:

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