Usually means: Explosive death of a star.
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  1. supernova: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. supernova: Merriam-Webster
  3. supernova: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. supernova: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. supernova: Collins English Dictionary
  6. supernova: Vocabulary.com
  7. supernova: Wordnik
  8. supernova: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. supernova: Wiktionary
  10. supernova: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. supernova: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. supernova: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. supernova: Dictionary.com
  14. supernova: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  16. supernova: Rhymezone
  17. supernova: FreeDictionary.org
  18. supernova: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. supernova: TheFreeDictionary.com
  20. Supernova: Wordnik

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  1. supernova: Encyclopedia

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  1. From Stargazers to Starships Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Supernova: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
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  4. Supernova: Extragalactic Astronomy
  5. Accelerator Glossary (No longer online)
  6. SUPERNOVA: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)

(Note: See supernovae as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (astronomy) A powerful and bright explosion of a massive star, which afterwards becomes a neutron star or a black hole, or is destroyed.
noun:  (figurative) Something brilliant.

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