ABSOLUTE MAGNITUDE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(astronomy) the magnitude that a star would have if it were viewed from a distance of 10 parsecs (32.62 light years) from the earth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("absolute magnitude" is a kind of...):

magnitude (the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small))

Domain category:

astronomy; uranology (the branch of physics that studies celestial bodies and the universe as a whole)

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