Dictionary![]() ![]() white' dwarf'Astron. a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf). Cf. Chandrasekhar limit. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.
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