Usually means: Extremely bright, distant active galactic nuclei.
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  1. quasar: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. quasar: Merriam-Webster
  3. quasar: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. quasar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. quasar: Collins English Dictionary
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  8. quasar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. quasar: Wiktionary
  10. quasar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. quasar: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. quasar: Infoplease Dictionary
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  14. quasar: Online Etymology Dictionary
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  1. quasar: Encyclopedia

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  1. QUASAR: Acronym Finder

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Quasar: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
  2. Imagine the Universe! Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Quasar: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. QUASAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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  1. Quasar: Urban Dictionary

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  1. High-Energy Astrophysics (No longer online)
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noun:  (astronomy) An extragalactic object, starlike in appearance, that is among the most luminous and (putatively) the most distant objects in the universe.

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