main sequence

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main sequence (plural main sequences)

  1. (astronomy) A major grouping of stars represented on a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram by a nearly uniform band of increasing luminosity with increasing surface temperature.
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see main, sequence.

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