starlike

IPA: stˈɑrɫaɪk

adjective

  • Resembling a star, especially in shape.
  • Resembling or characteristic of a celebrity or leading actor.
  • (geometry) Convex; having the property that any line segment joining any mapped point to a specified point in the domain lies entirely in the domain.
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Examples of "starlike" in Sentences

  • I agree that it is too un starlike for a ikiProject award.
  • A nebula or other starlike object may also be called a fixed star.
  • In fact it arose as a starlike example of the more general regular polygon.
  • The Steelmark consists of three four pointed starlike figures within a circle.
  • Anyway, the faint starlike image is at the rightmost edge of the squished disk.
  • My starlike pretense found its final frontier in a room which was anonymous by nature.
  • These are punctuated by starlike nodes and wavelike striations in low relief that are polished to a high gloss.
  • Mrs. Berry's fine eyes -- they had been called "starlike" twenty years before, by romantic young gentlemen -- filled with tears.
  • You take it all for granted and when I look you back it's with a starlike eye shooting its cold and egotistical spear where it can do least damage.
  • Similarly, the statute refers to “knuckles of any substance” that can be “put to the same use with the same or similar effect” as metallic knuckles; nunchaku, zoobow “or any similar weapon” configured with two sticks connected by rope, chain, or wire; and shuriken or “any similar pointed starlike object intended to injure a person when thrown.”

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