Starlike
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Starlike is an adjective meaning Resembling a star.
Meaning
Resembling a star.
More Meanings
- Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
- (geometry) Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.
Example Sentences
the growth theorem for holomorphic starlike mappings
For example, long projections emerged from the cells and floated before they retracted, creating a starlike pattern.
Pluto's starlike appearance in the telescope was an early clue that it was not the large Planet X astronomers had hoped for.
Synonyms for starlike
Depending on context, synonyms include starry.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include starry, astral, starrish, starfishlike, starlinglike, superstarry.
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