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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A binary star whose components periodically cross the line of sight from Earth, thereby causing alternating eclipses of one another.
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- noun astronomy A class of
extrinsic variable stars where changes in brightness are caused by starseclipsing each other.
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