Usually means: Extremely bright, distant active galactic nuclei.
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  1. quasar: Merriam-Webster.com
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  3. quasar: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
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  7. quasar: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  9. quasar: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
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  1. QUASAR: Acronym Finder

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  1. Quasar: Eric Weisstein's World of Astronomy
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  3. Quasar: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. QUASAR: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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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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