supersolar

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From super- +‎ solar.

Adjective[edit]

supersolar (comparative more supersolar, superlative most supersolar)

  1. Having features greater than those of the sun.
    The heat of a white dwarf is supersolar.
  2. Above the sun.
    • 1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Merlin. I.”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, pages 180–181:
      The kingly bard / Must smite the chords rudely and hard, / As with hammer or with mace; / That they may render back / Artful thunder, which conveys / Secrets of the solar track, / Sparks of the supersolar blaze.