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star system
noun
- the practice of casting and promoting star performers for their ability to draw at the box office.
star system
noun
- astronomy a group of celestial bodies that are associated as a result of natural laws
- the practice of casting one or two famous actors or actresses in a film, play, etc, so that their popularity ensures its success
- a design for laying cables for cable television in which each house is fed by an individual cable from a local central distribution point
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of star system1
Example Sentences
Michelin, a French tyre manufacturer, has made a restaurant guide since 1900, with the star system introduced in 1926.
This, for her, was the start of the new “star system” that was to infect American politics all the way up to Bill Clinton, a new misdirection that avoided the hard questions in favor of feel-good glad-handing, the glittery spin of politics in the age of TV that created a false consensus.
He'd spotted a star system, about 3,000 light years away, called T Corona Borealis - or T Cor Bor for short - exploding into brightness, becoming visible in the night sky for a few short days.
"Our new discovery lies far off the Galactic Plane, so there are only a handful of stars nearby, and we're now certain one star system, in particular, is generating the radio waves."
Their study of an unusual binary star system has resulted in convincing evidence that massive stars can completely collapse and become black holes without a supernova explosion.
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