MEANING
Situated around or surrounding a star.
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- circumstellar disk
- circumstellar material
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A circumstellar disk obscured part of the young star.
The probe measured circumstellar dust.
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- circumstellar
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Primary category: sci-fi. Forms: Normally non-gradable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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