"black dwarf" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: black dwarfs [plural], black dwarves [plural]
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  1. (astronomy) A theoretically predicted stellar remnant consisting of a white dwarf that has cooled and faded for trillions of years and no longer emits visible light. Translations (cooled white dwarf): nana negra [feminine] (Asturian), nana negra [feminine] (Catalan), 黑矮星 (hak¹ ai² sing¹) (Chinese Cantonese), 黑矮星 (hēi'ǎixīng) (Chinese Mandarin), nigra nano (Esperanto), musta kääpiö (Finnish), naine noire [feminine] (French), anana negra [feminine] (Galician), შავი ჯუჯა (šavi ǯuǯa) (Georgian), Schwarzer Zwerg [masculine] (German), काला बौना तारा (kālā baunā tārā) [masculine] (Hindi), abhac dubh [masculine] (Irish), nana nera [feminine] (Italian), 黒色矮星 (kokushoku-waisei) (alt: こくしょくわいせい) (Japanese), naneta negra [feminine] (Occitan), czarny karzeł [masculine] (Polish), anã negra [feminine] (Portuguese), pitică neagră [feminine] (Romanian), чёрный ка́рлик (čórnyj kárlik) [masculine] (Russian), црни патуљак (crni patuljak) [masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), enana negra [feminine] (Spanish)
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  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see black, dwarf. Related terms: brown dwarf, red dwarf, blue dwarf
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-08-07 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-08-02 using wiktextract (8b3c49c and 3c020d2). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.