globular cluster

globular cluster
noun Date: 1859 any of various approximately spherical clusters of gravitationally associated stars that typically populate galactic halos — called also globular

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  • globular cluster — cluster of up to a million stars that are held together in a spherical form by the force of gravity (Astronomy) …   English contemporary dictionary

  • globular cluster — Astron. a comparatively older, spherically symmetrical, compact group of up to a million old stars, held together by mutual gravitation, that are located in the galactic halo and move in giant and highly eccentric orbits around the galactic… …   Universalium

  • globular cluster — noun a spherical star cluster containing thousands to millions of stars …   Wiktionary

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  • cluster — clusteringly, adv. clustery, adj. /klus teuhr/, n. 1. a number of things of the same kind, growing or held together; a bunch: a cluster of grapes. 2. a group of things or persons close together: There was a cluster of tourists at the gate. 3. U.S …   Universalium

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