Usually means: Star whose brightness periodically changes.
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We found 19 dictionaries that define the word variable star:

General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. variable star: Merriam-Webster
  2. variable star: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. variable star: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. variable star: Collins English Dictionary
  5. variable star: Vocabulary.com
  6. variable star: Wordnik
  7. variable star: Wiktionary
  8. variable star: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. variable star: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. variable star: Dictionary.com
  11. Variable Star, Variable star: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. variable star: Rhymezone
  13. variable star: FreeDictionary.org
  14. variable star: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. variable star: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Variable Star (novel), Variable-star, Variable star (disambiguation), variable star: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Variable Star: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Variable Star: Extragalactic Astronomy

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. JPL Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See variable_stars as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (variable star)

noun:  (astronomy) Any star whose brightness varies.

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