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Wiktionary
n. 1 A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a asterisk) supposed to be made by such an explosion. 2 (context typography English) A symbol similar to an asterisk, but with additional rays: ✺. 3 (context astronomy English) A region of space with an unusually high rate of star formation. 4 (context astronomy English) A period in time during which a region of space experiences an unusually high rate of star formation. vb. (context astronomy of a region of space English) To experience an unusually high rate of star formation.
Wikipedia
Starburst may refer to:
- Starburst region, a generic term to describe a region of space with a much higher than normal star formation
- Starburst galaxy, a galaxy with an exceptionally high rate of star formation
- Starburst (business), or corporate spin-off, the breaking up of a large company
- Starburst (confectionery), a brand of chewy, fruit-flavored candy
- Starburst (symbol), a symbol consisting of a star surrounded by rays emanating from it
- Starburst (missile), a British man-portable surface-to-air missile (MANPADS)
- Fourteen-segment display or Starburst display, an alphanumeric display configuration
- Starburst (dinnerware), a style of Franciscan Ceramics, produced in the early 1950s
- Starburst (office suite), an office suite of the early 1980s
- Clerodendrum quadriloculare, a tropical flowering plant that is also called a starburst
Starburst (originally known as Opal Fruits) is the brand name of a box-shaped, fruit-flavored soft taffy candy manufactured by The Wrigley Company, a subsidiary of Mars, Incorporated.
Starburst has many different varieties such as Tropical, Sour, FaveReds, Very Berry, Superfruit Flavor and Original.
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A starburst is graphic design or typographical element that resembles diverging rays of light, or consists of a star-like image with rays emanating from it. In Unicode, the starburst character ("sixteen pointed asterisk") is U+273A.
The term can also refer to the Combining Cyrillic Millions character ( ҉ ) whose Unicode is U+0489.
Starburst is a British science fiction magazine published by Starburst Publishing Limited. The magazine is published monthly, with additional news and reviews being published daily on the website.
Starburst is a British man-portable surface-to-air missile produced by Shorts Missile Systems of Belfast (since 2002 known as Thales Air Defence Limited). It was used by the British Army (as Javelin S15), Malaysian Army, and in the Canadian Army as the Javelin until 2005. It can be fired from the shoulder or from a launcher known as Starburst LML – Lightweight Multiple Launcher.
It has been replaced in British service by the Starstreak missile.
Starburst is a collection of science fiction stories by Alfred Bester, originally published in paperback by Signet Books in 1958. Signet issued at least four reprint editions of the collection over more than twenty years; British editions were published by Sphere Books and Pan Books.
Usage examples of "starburst".
And in mid-afternoon came hubbub and hullaballoo from without, as a procession of royal floaters bearing the starburst emblem drew up outside.
Just starburst glimpses of birds and baby gators and high-flying dolphins.
As he approached the intricately carved door, gleaming with brilliant golden starbursts and royal monograms, it opened and Tunigorn and Ermanar emerged, looking drawn and somber.
One night we stood on the canted porch and watched tiny starbursts of color in the distant sky.
And instead of eyes I saw two red starbursts that went nova as the thing looked at me.
Thunder roared through a night sky roiling with red spears and starbursts of wild magick.
Year after year I got especially chosen and, I supposed, honoured to deal with the rain-or-no-rain million-dollar gamble on fine weather for the night the skies blazed with the multi-coloured firework starbursts sent up in memory of Guy Fawkes and his blow-up-Parliament gunpowder plot.
From a place high up in the middle of the air, where now the children could see a strange orange spiderweb of light spreading like a starburst of filament-fine lines, crazing in the trembling air as a projectile crazes glass.
Blinded, crippled, subject to intolerable heat and friction pressures, the kinetic drones detonated in garish starburst splendour twenty kilometres above the Lady Macbeth.
I remembered the sight of the round white Host behind the thick glass, the starburst of gold and jewels surrounding it, and overhead the embroidered canopy, swaying dangerously as the altar boys in their lace surplices tried to steady it as they moved on.
They wanted to smuggle a shielded nuclear bomb up to Terek Nor, because they thought it would cripple the Cardassians to lose their prefect and their base of operations all in one glorious starburst.
I think you were incredibly stupid to pull that starburst thing, but you showed some guts later when you broke the code of silence.
As he neared the reef, thickets of jewel-colored staghorn coral rose from the bottom, filling the water with a luminous garden of tangled scarlet branches and sapphire starbursts.
Her hair streamed out behind her and she seemed very beautiful, almost goddesslike, and she ran into the lukewarm starburst of a million flashbulbs.
She quickly learned, though, that the hammer and tongs symbol represented Nantzee itself, and she knew that the starburst represented the Church.