Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A rare celestial phenomenon involving the explosion of most of the material in a star, resulting in an extremely bright, short-lived object that emits vast amounts of energy.
Wiktionary
- n. astronomy A star which explodes, increasing its brightness to typically a billion times that of our sun, though attenuated by the great distance from our sun. Some leave only debris (Type I); others fade to invisibility as neutron stars (Type II).
WordNet 3.0
- n. a star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process
Etymologies
- super- + nova (Wiktionary)
Examples
“To describe her, she said, don't use the word supernova.”
“When a star explodes in what we call a supernova a large part of the explosion energy is used for accelerating some particles up to extremely high energies", says Helder.”
“The storm, created by the supernova, is a portal to the Orion constellation (or a planet within.)”
“Great talent, beauty, brains, her warmth, crackling wit, generosity and welcome smile - all wrapped up in one long-legged supernova is just too damn much for one woman to have - but this lady has it all.”
“Her great talent, beauty, brains, her warmth, crackling wit, generosity and welcome smile - all wrapped up in one long-legged supernova is just too damn much for one woman to have - but this lady has it all.”
“We expect that most of the particles are created in supernova explosions in our local galaxy but the cosmic ray particles that have the highest observed energies are assumed to come from unknown sources outside our galaxy.”
“Thus, for our functioning as biological beings we rely on elements formed milliards of years ago in supernova explosions, with the new kind of weak force predicted by the theory contributing in an important way; really a fascinating connection between biology, astrophysics and elementary particle physics.”
“i have a 20 gauge single shot break action h&r pardner. what are its capabilitys? benelli supernova is there any advantages to a single shot break action shotgun and what are they mainly used for?”
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“Origin of key cosmic explosions unraveled star, known as supernova taken fr ...”
“The gas cloud, now called a supernova remnant, is still expanding and emits radio waves as well as light.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘supernova’.
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
super-, sur-
above or beyond; to a great degree; extra large; of a higher kind
superfamily, supercontinent, superstructure, superabundant, supernumerary, superfluous, superfine, surprise, supercilious, supersonic, surrender, supercede and 33 more...
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mother nature
interesting acts of nature
( randomness, visual, setting, environment )firefly squid dro..., tornado, circumhorizontal arc, rainbow, waterfall, murmuration, hail, snow, glacier, volcano, giant redwoods, northern lights and 31 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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The braggadocio recipe
A selection of English* words ending with a vowel (except "y", "ea", ie", "ee", "oo", "ea", "ou") that is REALLY pronounced.
My favorite English words, by the way.
The good twin of The ...braggadocio, recipe, encyclopedia, solo, gnu, flu, maybe, apocope, mini, arrhythmia, folio, stereo and 197 more...
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Sugarbuzz's Words
buzz, widget, haiku, manifesto, warble, supernova, attenuate, mania, diabolical, behemoth, beguile, lascivious and 106 more...
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GPaX. Words.
excogitate, clarity, obscurity, tangential, interesting, regurgitate, mycelium, degradation, unladen, swallow, klein, quote and 120 more...
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christy927's list
...all my favorite words...
chrysalis, mahogany, indigo, elysian, rubenesque, cataclysmic, scythe, archaic, gaelic, trollop, sycamore, canopy and 279 more...
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ephemerides
being words related to astronomy, stellar cartography, and the music of the spheres, including names of planets, stars and constellations
ephemerides, ascension, declination, apogee, planet, star, constellation, galaxy, system, syzygy, ecliptic, sun and 202 more...
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_mark's list
Words I like!
( personal list, favorite words, randomness )psy, nanobot, success, smack, vibration, microcosmic, springgraph, marksmanship, estranged, homoerotic, flex, fiasco and 1692 more...
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My God, It's Full of Stars!
stellar black hole, micro black hole, black hole, collapsar, hypernova, supernova, nova, variable star, stellar core, strange star, quark star, compact star and 37 more...
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asleeponthesun's Words
harlequin, exquisite, supernova, mesmerize, wretched, reciprocate, legendary, mirror, slumber, capital, monastic, synergistic and 71 more...
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shatterkind
poem words, mine or otherwise
sleepside, shatterkin, morgengifu, lampyridae, bioluminescence, supernova, asterisk, nebula, sterndlich, theobroma, aphelion, bathysphere and 13 more...
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Spoken words
Words to say out loud
sken, jiggered, ginnel, tautological, salient, norepinephrine, ninny, bibliophile, foodie, fenickity, supernova, charismatic and 30 more...
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Favourite Words.
See title.
ensomenic, tenebrosity, oblivion, epiphany, nativity, serendipity, lonelilly, child, love, dawn, twilight, supernova and 1 more...
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Glosseme's Words
pusillanimous, fuliginous, nomenclature, cloture, cudgel, infra dig, aurora borealis, lexicon, domicile, lachrymose, pulchritude, veracity and 52 more...
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