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PROXIMA CENTAURI

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The nearest star to the sun; distance: 4.3 light years

Synonyms:

Proxima; Proxima Centauri

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

flare star (a red dwarf star in which luminosity can change several magnitudes in a few minutes)

Holonyms ("Proxima Centauri" is a member of...):

Centaur; Centaurus (a conspicuous constellation in the southern hemisphere near the Southern Cross)

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 Context examples: 

These new observations reveal the glow coming from cold dust in a region between one to four times as far from Proxima Centauri as the Earth is from the Sun.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

Proxima Centauri is the closest star to the Sun.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

Dust appears to lie in a belt that extends a few hundred million kilometres from Proxima Centauri and has a total mass of about one hundredth of the Earth’s mass.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)