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Japanese
Etymology
Borrowed from English star.[1][2][3][4][5]
Pronunciation
Noun
スター • (sutā)
- (in compounds) a star (luminous celestial body)
- Synonym: 星 (hoshi)
- (by extension) an asterisk
- Synonyms: アステリスク (asuterisuku), 星印 (hoshijirushi)
- a star (famous person in the media like an actor or athlete)
- Synonym: 花形 (hanagata)
- (physics) Multiple tracks emitted radially from the one point on the nuclear plate which caused by the collision of the high-energy elementary particles with the nucleus to emit the hadrons in all directions.
- Synonym: スター現象 (sutā genshō)
- (mineralogy) asterism
- Synonyms: スター効果 (sutā kōka), アステリズム (asuterizumu), 星彩 (seisai)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ Matsumura, Akira (1995) 大辞泉 (in Japanese), First edition, Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN
- ^ “スター”, in 世界大百科事典 第２版 (Sekai Dai-hyakka Jiten Dainihan, “Heibonsha World Encyclopedia Second Edition”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Heibonsha, 1998
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
- ^ “スター”, in ブリタニカ国際大百科事典 小項目事典 (Buritanika Kokusai Dai Hyakka Jiten: Shō Kōmoku Jiten, “Encyclopædia Britannica International: Micropædia”) (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Britannica Japan Co., Ltd., 2014
- ^ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN