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What does Sun-like mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Sun-like? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. (astronomy) Alternative form of sunlike (like our Sun)
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She knelt for hours on sturdy legs in front of the host in the golden, sun-like monstrance.
The presence of xenon in such lamps results in a very bright, sun-like light used in photographic flash units, strobe lights, and airport runway lights.
A planetary nebula forms when Sun-like stars gently eject their outer gaseous layers to form bright nebulae with amazing twisted shapes.
It is part of a triple system consisting of a pair of Sun-like stars, Alpha Centauri A and B, and a more distant and faint red companion, Proxima Centauri.
No, they did find one recently that had a Jupiter-like planet in a Jupiter-like orbit around a Sun-like star, that's the closest they've come so far.
The finding is at odds with a survey completed in 1991, which found that the majority of systems containing a sun-like star were multiple star systems, reports New Scientist.

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