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starburst

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for starburst.

Editorial note

There was a person who captured a Logitech Starburst V2 packet capture from one of their management machines.

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Definitions4
Parts of speech2

Quick take

A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of starburst gathered in one view.

noun

A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.

verb

To explode; to burst out violently via, or in such a manner as to cause, an explosion.

verb

To make a starburst pattern.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for starburst.

noun

A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.

verb

To explode; to burst out violently via, or in such a manner as to cause, an explosion.

verb

To make a starburst pattern.

noun

(astronomy) A region of space with an unusually high rate of star formation.

Example sentences

1

There was a person who captured a Logitech Starburst V2 packet capture from one of their management machines.

2

The starburst and light ribbon effects later in the video are similarly brilliant examples of pre-CG CG.

3

However, as my eyes healed, vision degraded a bit and the halo and starburst distortions came back.

4

There were long trails and a sort of slow-forming starburst that persisted for a minute or so.

5

Like they have a starburst clone recipe that honestly most sites wouldn’t bother with because it’s unbelievably labor intensive.

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The series covers what I have learned deploying and tuning Starburst Enterprise in production, cross-referenced against official Starburst documentation (SEP 477-e LTS, November 2025) and the Presto/Trino Training Series.

7

Any idea what this starburst over the USC campus police headquarters is all about?

8

Apparently most people don't see a big starburst around lights at night, or have a faint/fuzzy halo around text at any distance.

9

The content of a well-written letter takes a backseat in value to being able to put a crappy starburst on a bake-sale flyer?

10

This is a three-part practitioner series on Starburst Enterprise performance tuning.

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The robots were picking loose Starburst candies off a belt moving in one direction, and arranging them into colored words on a belt moving in the other direction.

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It can be done on signals of more than one dimension, too: take a cat photo, transform it into something that looks a bit like a starburst, then transform the starburst back into a photo of a cat.

Quote examples

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To steal a tptacek line, "I hope to make the starburst of points which follow by implication rather than by explicit statement."

2

Books of programs you could type in had a starburst with "1K" in it for those smaller programs that would fit in the limited default RAM.

3

I then "zoomed out" and thought about the Milky Way, then about other galaxies, spiral ones and starburst ones and irregular galaxies, and the void between them.

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The "slow-forming starburst" is most likely from the exhaust plume in vacuum; once the rocket is high enough to no longer be in earth's shadow the plume catches sunlight and becomes very visible on the ground to an observer in darkness.

Proper noun examples

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Starburst and halo artifacts are the keywords to get an idea.

2

Starburst (full disclosure: I work there) provides a query engine (trino under the hood) with Iceberg support [1] -- worth checking out.

3

Milky Way, Mars, Starburst, Orbit gum...

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use starburst in a sentence?

There was a person who captured a Logitech Starburst V2 packet capture from one of their management machines.

What does starburst mean?

A violent explosion, or the pattern (likened to the shape of a star) supposed to be made by such an explosion.

What part of speech is starburst?

starburst is commonly used as noun, verb.