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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

ultraluminous en · ADJ

Etymology

From ultra- + luminous.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Very luminous
  2. (not-comparable) Very luminous ▸ Very luminous, though less luminous than that classified as hyperluminous.
  3. (not-comparable) Having a luminosity near below, at, or, exceeding Eddington luminosity, exceeding the Eddington limit

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Coordinates

Eddington limit · super-Eddington · Eddington luminosity

Deriveds

ULXB · ULX · ULIRG

Relateds

subluminous · hyperluminous · luminous · superluminous