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- noun Plural form of
burster .
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Examples
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While one cannot be ready for "anything" (gamma ray bursters are hard to prepare for) it is prudent to have some emergency supplies, food, hand tools, medical supplies, etc.
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And a supernova is described as "the most intense brilliance nature ever creates," ignoring the far brighter outbursts of quasars and the phenomenal stellar explosions known as gamma-ray bursters.
Solar Illumination John Gribbin 2011
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While one cannot be ready for "anything" (gamma ray bursters are hard to prepare for) it is prudent to have some emergency supplies, food, hand tools, medical supplies, etc.
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Well, apparently, one of the potential gamma-ray bursters out there, WR 104, is only 8000 light-years away and, um, pointed right toward us.
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Supernova, gamma-ray bursters, enormous black holes in every galaxy spewing deadly torrents of radiation, supervolcanoes, solar flares, not to mention planet-busting asteriods, all pose threats to civilization and life itself.
The Fermi Paradox: Where are they? Stephen D. Covey 2008
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Still, the downburst theory continued to divide the meteorological community “into bursters and antibursters.”
Storm Warning Nancy Mathis 2007
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The winds known as southerly bursters are generally to be expected from
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Hellex expanders, Tarifa bursters, and Jaffna jelly.
The Mocking Program Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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The electric hum in the air was accented by a hucka-hucka sound of large paper machines that the operators called bursters.
RL’s Dream Walter Mosley 1995
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The winds known as southerly bursters are generally to be expected from November to the end of
The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Philip E. Muskett
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