ASTROPHYSICAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does astrophysical mean? 

• ASTROPHYSICAL (adjective)
  The adjective ASTROPHYSICAL has 1 sense:

1. of or concerned with astrophysics

  Familiarity information: ASTROPHYSICAL used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ASTROPHYSICAL (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or concerned with astrophysics

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

astrophysical sciences

Pertainym:

astrophysics (the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies)

Derivation:

astrophysics (the branch of astronomy concerned with the physical and chemical properties of celestial bodies)

 Context examples 

The remaining 707 are more likely to be some other astrophysical phenomena.

(Kepler Mission Announces Largest Collection of Planets Ever Discovered, NASA)

It also ruled out other possible astrophysical causes of the transit signal, such as the presence of a smaller, dimmer companion star in the system.

(NASA Planet Hunter Finds Earth-Size Habitable-Zone World, NASA)

Microwaves, the very same radiation that can heat up your dinner, are produced by a multitude of astrophysical sources, including strong emitters known as masers (microwave lasers), even stronger emitters with the somewhat villainous name of megamasers and the centers of some galaxies.

(Hubble's Megamaser Galaxy, ESA/NASA)

Scientists consider Jupiter to be a physics lab of sorts for worlds beyond our solar system, saying the ability of Jupiter to accelerate charged particles to immense energies has implications for how more distant astrophysical systems accelerate particles.

(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)