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ultraluminous

adj

Etymology

From ultra- + luminous.

  1. derived from lūminōsus
  2. borrowed from lumineus
  3. prefixed as ultraluminous — “ultra + luminous”

Definitions

  1. Very luminous

  2. Having a luminosity near below, at, or, exceeding Eddington luminosity, exceeding the…

    Having a luminosity near below, at, or, exceeding Eddington luminosity, exceeding the Eddington limit

The neighborhood

Derived

ULIRG, ULX, ULXB

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for ultraluminous. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA