post-main sequence
Astronomy
adjective
Designating a star which is too old to lie within the main sequence on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, i.e. one which no longer has hydrogen fusion at its core and is relatively cool or dim, such as red giant.
Origin
1960s; earliest use found in Science.
- goodiness
- gooding
- Gooding Day
- good-intentioned
- goodish
- goodish length
- goodish-looking
- goodishness
- goodish-sized
- good King Harry
- Good King Henry
- good lady
- good-length
- good liber
- good life
- goodlike
- goodliness
- good liver
- good-living
- good-looker
- good-looking
- good-lookingness
- good looks
- goodlordship
- good luck to ——