O star

[ oh stahr ]

noun

1. a very hot, massive, blue star of spectral type O, having a surface temperature between 30,000 and 50,000 K and an absorption spectrum with few lines, though the Balmer series of hydrogen lines is present and lines of ionized helium are detectable.

Example Sentences

Mistress came running to meet me, and put both arms around my neck, and said: 'O Star, you have saved our darling's life!'

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It is a passage conceived in the same spirit as the great chaunt "O Star of France!"

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Chorus I. “O star, emerging great, through thy light, thou thyself formest thy own limbs.”

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I am aware of your complaints, O star-loving reader—that my description is too meager and too succinct.

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The sun, a yellow G-O star, hung hotly just above the towering mountains to the east.

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