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Starlike

adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    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."

  2. 2
    Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
  3. 3
    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"

Adjective
  1. 1
    resembling a star wordnet

Etymology

From star + -like.

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