starlike.
Resembling a star.
Meaning & usage
Resembling a star.
Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.
Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.
the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings
Where this word comes from
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eHs- Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr Proto-Indo-European *h₂stḗr Proto-Germanic *sternǭ Proto-West Germanic *sternō Proto-West Germanic *sterrō Old English steorra Middle English sterre English star Proto-Indo-European *leyg-der. Proto-Germanic *līkąder. Proto-Germanic *-līkaz Proto-West Germanic *-līk Old English -līċ Middle English -like English -like English starlike From star + -like.
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