star systemn.

1822 Babbler 9 Apr. 381/1 The managers of provincial theatres by pursuing the star system are continually shewing how well nature can be imitated.

1890 G. B. Shaw in Star 18 Apr. 2/3 The familiar star system trick of making the minor characters slur their work in order to leave plenty of time for the mock pregnant pauses..of the leading actor.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 43/1 Italian opera as such (i.e., with Italian as the exclusive language employed and the old ‘star’ system in full swing) ceased to exist as a regular institution a few years after that.

1937 A. Calder-Marshall in C. Day Lewis Mind in Chains 71 This tendency..has led to the star-system deplored by film critics almost without exception.

1971 Guardian 5 June 9/4 Hollywood was devising the ‘star system’, the big solo buildup, the personality cult of the silent screen.

2012 K. Varia Bollywood v. 96 These notions are..embodied in Bollywood's star system. Stars are at the epicentre of Bollywood films.

1833 Relig. Intelligencer 7 Dec. 441/1 Owing to the precision [sic] of the Equinox, and the motion of the whole Star System round some distant and unknown center, the Earth, is constantly making a new path, through absolute space.

1860 Mechanic's Mag. 6 July 2/1 The nearest fixed star of our star system whose distance has been measured, is the brightest in the constellation Centaur.

1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World viii. 167 The first partitions [of the gaseous nebulae] are the star-systems such as our galactic system.

1967 P. Moore Amateur Astronomer's Gloss. 89 Nubeculæ (or Magellanic Clouds), the nearest of the external star-systems, and so the brightest as seen with the naked eye.

1984 New Scientist 16 Feb. 20/1 They have found a star system where powerful bursts of X-rays from a neutron star are periodically eclipsed by a companion star.

2008 L. Rogers It's Only Rocket Sci. x. 237 It would take thousands of years to reach another star and currently there are no missions planned to explore other star systems.