starlike

English

Etymology

From star +‎ -like.

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Adjective

starlike (comparative more starlike, superlative most starlike)

  1. 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.
    • 2007 September 16, Lawrence K. Altman, “4 Winners of Lasker Medical Prize”, in New York Times‎[1]:
      For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.
  2. Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
  3. (geometry) 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

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