white dwarf

white dwarf

English

Noun

white dwarf (plural white dwarfs)

1. (astronomy) A dying star of low or medium mass, more solid and dense but less bright than the sun.

Synonyms

• WD

Translations

white dwarf star

Arabic: قَزْم أَبْيَض‎ m (qazm ʾabyaḍ) Catalan: nana blanca Chinese: Mandarin: 白矮星 (zh) (bái'ǎixīng) Czech: bílý trpaslík (cs) m Danish: hvid dværg Dutch: witte dwerg Esperanto: blanka nano Estonian: valge kääbus Finnish: valkoinen kääpiö (fi) French: naine blanche (fr) f Georgian: თეთრი ჯუჯა (tetri ǯuǯa), გადაგვარებული ჯუჯა (gadagvarebuli ǯuǯa) German: Weißer Zwerg (de) m Greek: λευκός νάνος m (lefkós nános) Hebrew: נַנָּס לָבָן‎ (he) m (nanás laván) Hungarian: fehér törpe (hu) Irish: abhac bán m Italian: nana bianca f Japanese: 白色矮星 (はくしょくわいせい, hakushokuwaisei) Kazakh: ақ ергежейлі (aq ergejeilı) Korean: 백색 왜성(白色矮星) (baeksaek waeseong) Latvian: baltais punduris m Mongolian: цагаан одой (cagaan odoj) Polish: biały karzeł m Portuguese: anã branca f Romanian: pitică albă (ro) f Russian: бе́лый ка́рлик (ru) m (bélyj kárlik) Serbo-Croatian: бели патуљак m (beli patuljak) Slovene: bela pritlikavka (sl) f Spanish: enana blanca (es) Swedish: vit dvärg (sv) Turkish: beyaz cüce Vietnamese: sao lùn trắng (vi) (𣋀倫𤽸)

See also

• red giant
• red dwarf
• blue giant
• brown dwarf
• black dwarf

Further reading

white dwarf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia