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Definition of Cepheids
1. cepheid [n] - See also: cepheid
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cepheids
Literary usage of Cepheids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1919)
"Hence it follows that cepheids of any given period have about five times the mass of
... This conclusion (which holds good only for the cepheids proper, ..."
2. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific by Astronomical Society of the Pacific (1919)
"A few faint variables that may be cepheids of long period are found in high ...
(There are, of course, many cepheids of both groups in high galactic ..."
3. Year Book by Carnegie Institution of Washington (1920)
"A tabulation for a number of cepheids also showed: (a) a progressive trend of
... Inasmuch as the surface conditions on cepheids, ie, in the comparatively ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1883)
"... (u cepheids), is quite a separate display to the shower at 335° + 73° (y
cepheids), ... It is to these and to the contemporary showers of cepheids and ..."
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