Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The brightest star in the constellation Cygnus, approximately 1,630 light years from Earth. Deneb is one of the stars that make up the Summer Triangle.
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- proper noun astronomy A
blue giant star in theconstellation Cygnus ; Alpha (α) Cygni. It forms one corner of theSummer Triangle . Deneb is one of the brightest stars in the night sky, and one of the mostluminous stars known.
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- noun the brightest star in Cygnus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Stars: Alpha Cygni, also known as Deneb, blue-white, first magnitude.
Starchild Omnibus Pohl, Frederik & Williamson, Jack 1963
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The Phenom II X4 will be a part of the Dragon platform and is also known as the Deneb core.
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It looks so bright from Earth that it has a name of its own, Deneb Kaitos, but we never call it that because "Deneb" brings to mind the other Deneb, Alpha Cygni, which is a real giant in a different part of the sky almost sixteen hundred light-years away.
Time For The Stars Heinlein, Robert A. 1956
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I also misspelled "Deneb," but caught it too late.
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The architecture is "Deneb", the socket is AM3 and the CPU still features
OCTools 2010
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The architecture is "Deneb", the socket is AM3 and the CPU still features
OCTools 2010
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"Deneb" architecture and therefore features 6MB L3 cache, with each core receiving its own dedicated 512KB of L2 cache (2MB total L2 cache).
Neowin.net / All 2009
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The whole event was designed to create interest in AMD's upcoming 45nm "Deneb" processors, namely the Phenom II.
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AMD SHOWED OFF its upcoming 45-nanometer 'Deneb' desktop chips for reviewers in Texas on Thursday, and overclocked it to what some observers said was 6. 3GHz.
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AMD SHOWED OFF its upcoming 45-nanometer 'Deneb' desktop chips for reviewers in Texas on Thursday, and overclocked it to what some observers said was 6. 3GHz.
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