2. Noun. (star) A cepheid variable. ¹
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Definition of Cepheid
1. a giant star [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cepheid
Literary usage of Cepheid
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1919)
"In other words, typical cepheid variation is apparently impossible, ... While the
double-star theories of cepheid variation afford no plausible explanation ..."
2. General Astronomy by Harold Spencer Jones (1922)
"cepheid variables. In the Small Magellanic Cloud many of these stars have been
... Miss Leavitt found that for the cepheid-type variables in the Cloud there ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"This leads to the rough estimate that a cepheid of 7 days period is of about 1/7000
... A cepheid of 3J days' period would have about half tho sun's mass, ..."
4. Year books by Plainfield High School (Plainfield, N.J.) (1919)
"In other words, typical cepheid variation is apparently impossible, ... While the
double-star theories of cepheid variation afford no plausible explanation ..."
5. The American Year Book: A Record of Events and Progress by Francis Graham Wickware, (, Albert Bushnell Hart, (, Simon Newton Dexter North, William M. Schuyler (1917)
"Stars of the cepheid type increase rapidly in brightness to a maximum and ...
The variation of the cepheid type is probably not due to the eclipses of a ..."
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