star
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma (physics), plasma held together by its gravity. The List of nearest stars and brown dwarfs, nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked ...
is a luminous astronomical object.
Star, The Star or STAR may also refer to:
Shapes and symbols
* Star (polygon), a geometric shape with acute points arranged radially
* Star (glyph), a typographical symbol
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Star (heraldry)
In heraldry, the term star may refer to any star-shaped charge with any number of rays, which may appear straight or wavy, and may or may not be pierced. While there has been much confusion between the two due to their similar shape, a star with ...
, star-like shapes used in heraldry
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Star (classification)
Star classification is a type of rating scale utilizing a star glyph or similar typographical symbol. It is used by reviewers for ranking things such as films, TV shows, restaurants, and hotels. For example, a system of one to five stars is ...
, a rating system for hotels, movies, or other products
* Star (sport badge), on a team uniform, representing titles won
Arts and entertainment
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Star (person)
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media. An individual may attain a celebrity status from having great wealth, their participation in sports ...
or celebrity
** Movie star, a person famous for performing in films
Fictional entities
* Patrick Star, a character in the animated series ''SpongeBob SquarePants''
* S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
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Star (Marvel Comics)
Sabra
Sabreclaw
Sabreclaw is a character in the MC2 universe who first appeared in '' J2'' #8 (May 1999). He is the half-brother of Wild Thing and the son of Wolverine.
The character has claws (similar to Sabretooth), a healing factor, enh ...
, the name of three fictional characters in Marvel Comics
* Star, a star-shaped puppet in '' The Good Night Show'' and its animated spin-off '' Nina's World''
* Star, a character in the game '' Yie Ar Kung-Fu''
* Star Butterfly, a character in the Disney animated series '' Star vs. the Forces of Evil''
Danielle Steel's Star
''Danielle Steel's Star'' is a 1993 American made-for-television film starring Jennie Garth, Craig Bierko, Terry Farrell, Penny Fuller and Mitchell Ryan. This film is based on the 1989 novel ''Star'' by author Danielle Steel and is set in the 19 ...
Super Mario
(also known as and ) is a platform game series created by Nintendo starring their mascot, Mario. It is the central series of the greater Mario (franchise), ''Mario'' franchise. At least one ''Super Mario'' game has been released for every m ...
Star/Boom Boom
''Star/Boom Boom'' is the second studio album by Pakistani pop duo Nazia and Zoheb (Nazia Hassan & Zohaib Hassan), released in 1982. The Bollywood film ''Star'' used the album's music as its soundtrack. The album was thus also released as ''Star'', ...
'', the soundtrack album to the 1982 film ''Star''
* ''The Star'' (album), by JO1
Cosmic
Cosmic commonly refers to:
* The cosmos, a concept of the universe
Cosmic may also refer to:
Media
* ''Cosmic'' (album), an album by Bazzi
* Afro/Cosmic music
* "Cosmic", a song by Kylie Minogue from the album '' X''
* CosM.i.C, a member of ...
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* "Star", by Biddu and Zohaib Hassan from ''
Star/Boom Boom
''Star/Boom Boom'' is the second studio album by Pakistani pop duo Nazia and Zoheb (Nazia Hassan & Zohaib Hassan), released in 1982. The Bollywood film ''Star'' used the album's music as its soundtrack. The album was thus also released as ''Star'', ...
Stela Cole
Hollyn Elizabeth Shadinger (born October 21, 1997), known professionally as Stela Cole is an American singer-songwriter. Her song “DIY” held the record for the most first week streams on American Song Contest where she reached the semi-finals ...
* "Star", by Estelle
* "Star", by Kiki Dee
* "Star", by Rebecca Ferguson from '' Superwoman''
* "Star", by Terri Walker from '' L.O.V.E''
* "Star", by The Crash from '' Wildlife''
* "Star", by The Cult from '' The Cult''
* "Star", by Hellyeah from their eponymous album
* "Star", by The Hollies from '' Write On''
* "Star", by Savoy from ''
Mountains of Time
''Mountains of Time'' is the third album released by the band Savoy. It is the only original Savoy studio album (apart from Mary is Coming) officially released outside of Scandinavia so far, but only in central and Western Europe. There was a lim ...
Midnight Sunshine
''Midnight Sunshine'' is a 1984 studio album from Kikki Danielsson. She went to Nashville, Tennessee in the United States to record "Midnight Sunshine" in the Star Gem Studio. The album also entered the Sverigetopplistan, Swedish Albums Chart, pea ...
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* "The Star", by
Ross D. Wyllie
Ross D. Wyllie (born 21 November 1944) is an Australian pop music singer, television presenter and producer from the 1960s and 1970s. Wyllie had a top 20 hit with his cover of Ray Stevens' song "Funny Man" and an Australian No. 1 with ...
* ''Star'', a novel by Pamela Anderson
* ''Star'', a novel by
Danielle Steel
Danielle Fernandes Dominique Schuelein-Steel (born August 14, 1947) is an American writer, best known for her romance novels. She is the bestselling author alive and the fourth-bestselling fiction author of all time, with over 800 million ...
Star (guitar)
The star is a body shape of solid body electric guitar, particularly favoured for heavy metal music. It blends some features of the Flying V and Gibson Explorer, both of them much older designs.
Eddie van Halen hacked his explorer-shaped Ibanez ...
, a guitar body shape
* Star (Disney+), a hub within the Disney+ streaming service for an adult audience
* Star Cinema Circuit, an historic Australian cinema chain, proprietors D. Clifford Theatres
* Star Distribution, a Latin American and Brazilian film distributor
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Star Theatre (disambiguation) Star Theatre(s) or Star Theater(s) may refer to several cinemas or theatres, including:
Australia New South Wales
* Star Theatre, Bondi Junction, a former cinema in Bondi Junction, Sydney
* Star Theatre, Sydney, within The Star, Sydney, The Star ca ...
St. Austin Review
The ''St. Austin Review'' (StAR) is a Catholic international review of culture and ideas. It is edited by author, columnist and EWTN TV host Joseph Pearce and literary scholar Robert Asch. StAR includes book reviews, discussions on Christian art ...
Star FM (disambiguation) Star FM may refer to:
* Star FM (Australia), a former radio network in Australia
* Star FM (Kenya), a Somali-language radio station
* Star FM (Philippines), a radio network in the Philippines
* Star FM (South Africa), a radio station in Klerksdor ...
* Star Comics, an imprint of Marvel Comics (1984–1988)
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Star Film (Dutch East Indies company)
Star Film was a film production company in the Dutch East Indies. Established by Chinese-Indonesian businessman Jo Eng Sek and Chinese cameraman Cho' Chin Hsin in 1940, it produced five black-and-white films in 1940 and 1941; two of these were di ...
, a Dutch East Indies former film production company
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Star FM (disambiguation) Star FM may refer to:
* Star FM (Australia), a former radio network in Australia
* Star FM (Kenya), a Somali-language radio station
* Star FM (Philippines), a radio network in the Philippines
* Star FM (South Africa), a radio station in Klerksdor ...
, the name of several radio broadcasters
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Star Media Group
Daily News Brands, formerly Star Media Group, is a Canadian media organization and a division of Torstar Corporation. Its flagship publication is the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper, which is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of ...
, a division of Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd.
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Star Music
Star Music (stylized in lowercase as starmusic; formerly known as Star Records), is a record label in the Philippines owned and operated by media conglomerate ABS-CBN Corporation. It was formerly a separate company operating as a wholly owned su ...
, a recording company in the Philippines
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Star TV (disambiguation) Star TV may refer to:
* E! (Canadian TV channel) (formerly Star!), a Canadian entertainment news channel
* Las Estrellas (Spanish for The Stars), the Mexican television network
* Estrella TV (Spanish for Star TV), the American Spanish-language netw ...
, the name of several TV broadcasters and streaming services
Star Airlines
XL Airways France was a French airline with its head offices on the grounds of Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport. It operated scheduled flights mainly to long-haul destinations in Africa, the Middle East, the United States and the Caribbean as we ...
, a former name of XL Airways France
* Star Alliance, an alliance of airlines
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Star Aviation
Star Aviation is an airline based at Hassi Messaoud, Algeria. It operates domestic services and its main base is Oued Irara–Krim Belkacem Airport, Hassi Messaoud.
History
Star Aviation is the aircraft operation of the RedMed Group (a priva ...
, an Algerian airline
Land
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FSC Star
Fabryka Samochodów Ciężarowych "Star" (FSC Star), also known simply as Star, was a Polish truck manufacturer. The name comes from the City of Starachowice, where the factory is located. Their first vehicle was the ''Star 20'' in 1948. The mos ...
Star Motor Company
The Star Motor Company was a British car and commercial vehicle maker based in Wolverhampton and active from 1898 to 1932. At its peak Star was the UK's sixth largest car manufacturer and produced around 1000 cars a year.Collins, Paul & Strat ...
, an 1898–1932 British car manufacturer
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Star Motorcycles
Star Motorcycles was a U.S.-specific brand of Yamaha Motor Company used on Yamaha's cruiser motorcycles.
History
In 1994 Yamaha announced the creation of Star Motorcycles, a new standalone brand name for its cruiser series of motorcycles in th ...
French
French (french: français(e), link=no) may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to France
** French language, which originated in France, and its various dialects and accents
** French people, a nation and ethnic group identified with Franc ...
Rennes
Rennes (; br, Roazhon ; Gallo: ''Resnn''; ) is a city in the east of Brittany in northwestern France at the confluence of the Ille and the Vilaine. Rennes is the prefecture of the region of Brittany, as well as the Ille-et-Vilaine department ...
Star Ferry
The Star Ferry is a passenger ferry service operator and tourist attraction in Hong Kong. Its principal routes carry passengers across Victoria Harbour, between Hong Kong Island, and Kowloon. The service is operated by the Star Ferry Com ...
, a Hong Kong ferryboat service
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Star Line (shipping company)
The '' Star Line'' was a fleet of ships owned by timber merchants, Messrs. James P Corry and Co Ltd. of Belfast, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Ireland. The shipping company was formed by Robert Corry in 1826 to import timber from ...
Star Bonifacio Echeverria
Star Bonifacio Echeverria, S.A. was a manufacturer of small arms (principally handguns and sub-machineguns) in the Basque region of Spain from about 1905 until 1997.
Company history
Bonifacio Echeverria and the ancestry of Star
The Eibar regi ...
Star Market
Star Market is a New England chain of supermarkets based in Greater Boston. It was owned by the Mugar family and started in 1915. The company was sold to The Jewel Companies, Inc. in 1964 and later to Investcorp, which in turn sold the chain to ...
, a chain of supermarkets based in Boston, US
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Star Micronics
is a Japanese multinational electronic components and printer manufacturing company headquartered in Shizuoka, Japan. It was founded in 1947 as a precision processor of miniature components, later expanding into automatic lathes, printers, mi ...
, a Japanese printer manufacturer
Education
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California Standardized Testing and Reporting Program The California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP), known until February 2014 as the Measurement of Academic Performance and Progress (MAPP), measures the performance of students undergoing primary and secondary education in Cal ...
, a school assessment program
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New York State School Tax Relief Program The New York State School Tax Relief Program (more commonly known as the STAR Program), or New York State Real Property Tax Law §425, is a school tax rebate program offered in New York State aimed at reducing school district property taxes on the ...
Special Task and Rescue
The Special Task and Rescue ( ms, Pasukan Tindakan Khas dan Penyelamat APMM – PTK APMM, Jawi: ''ڤاسوكن تيندقن خاص دان ڤڽلامت ماريتيم'') or STAR is the maritime tactical unit of the Malaysian Maritime Enforceme ...
, a division of the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency
* Special Tasks and Rescue, (STAR Group) a police unit of the South Australia police
Private organizations
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STAR (student association)
STAR (''St''udy ''A''ssociation ''R''otterdam School of Management, Erasmus University) is a study association for business administration students of the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University at the Erasmus University Rotterdam base ...
* Star (name), a list of people with either the given name or surname
* Star, a female professional wrestler from the
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling
Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (also known by its initials as GLOW or G.L.O.W.) is a women's professional wrestling promotion that began in 1986 (the pilot was filmed in December 1985) and has continued in various forms after it left television. C ...
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Star Jr.
Star Jr. (born November 15, 1993) is a Mexican ''luchador enmascarado'' (or masked professional wrestler), currently working for the Mexican professional wrestling promotion Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre (CMLL). He portrays a '' tecnico'' ("Go ...
(born 1994), the ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler
* Zonnique "Star" Pullins, member of the teenage girl group
OMG Girlz
OMG (initialism of "Officially Miss Guided") is an American teen pop girl group, initially known as the OMG Girlz. Their name is a play-on words, it represents being young ladies "Miss" that are "Guided" in positive ways. Formed in 2009, by Tame ...
Places
United Kingdom
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Star, Fife
Star, also known as Star of Markinch (and historically as Star of Brunton or Star of Dalginch)), is a small village in Fife, Scotland.
The name of Star derives from the causeway (stair) over the Star Moss, a raised bog to the northwest of the vill ...
, a village in Scotland
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Star, Pembrokeshire
Star is a small village in the parish and community of Clydau in Pembrokeshire, Wales.
It lies south of Bwlchygroes on a crossroads in the valley of the Afon Cneifa (a tributary of Afon Cych
Afon Cych (standard Welsh orthography: Afon Cuch) ...
, a hamlet in Wales
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Star, Somerset
Shipham () is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England. It is on the western edge of the Mendip Hills near the A38 road, A38, approximately south of Bristol. It is in the Non-metropolitan district, local government district of Sedgemoor. ...
, a hamlet in the civil parish of Shipham, England
* Star, a small settlement near the village of Gaerwen, Wales
United States
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Star, Idaho
Star is a city in northwestern Ada County, Idaho, with parts stretching into neighboring Canyon County. The population was 5,793 at the 2010 census, up from 1,795 in 2000.Munising Township, Michigan, an unincorporated community
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Star, Mississippi
Star is an unincorporated community in Rankin County, Mississippi, southeast of Jackson. Its ZIP code is 39167, area code is 601 and local exchange is 845. The elevation is 423 feet. Star appears on the Star U.S. Geological Survey Map. The comm ...
Star, Texas
Star is an unincorporated community in Mills County in Central Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population of 85 in 2000.
Geography
Star is located at the junction of U.S. Highway 84 and ...
, an unincorporated community
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Star Island (disambiguation) Star Island may refer to:
Islands
United States
* Star Island (New Hampshire), one of the Isles of Shoals, New Hampshire
* Star Island (Miami Beach), a neighborhood and artificial island in the city of Miami Beach
*Star Island, Minnesota, an islan ...
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Star Lake (Cook County, Minnesota)
Star Lake is a lake in Cook County, Minnesota, in the United States.
Star Lake was probably so named from its roughly star-like outline.
See also
*List of lakes in Minnesota
This is a list of lakes of Minnesota. Although promoted as the "Land ...
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Star Lake (Otter Tail County, Minnesota)
Star Lake is a lake located in Otter Tail County, Minnesota. Star Lake Township, Minnesota is named after the lake because the township contains nearly the entire lake. Public access to the lake is available on Minnesota State Highway 108
Minne ...
, a lake in central Minnesota
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Star Lake (Vilas County, Wisconsin)
Star Lake is a lake in Vilas County, Wisconsin, United States. The lake covers an area of and reaches a maximum depth of . Visitors have access to the lake from public boat landingsThecommunity of Star Lake, Wisconsin is located on the lake's no ...
Star Valley
Star Valley is located in the United States between the Salt River Range in western Wyoming and the Webster Range of eastern Idaho. The altitude of the valley ranges from to . Three major Wyoming rivers, the Salt River, the Greys River and th ...
, in western Wyoming and eastern Idaho
Elsewhere
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Star, Alberta
Star is a hamlet in central Alberta, Canada within Lamont County. It is located on Highway 831, approximately north of Lamont Lamont or LaMont may refer to:
People
*Lamont (name), people with the surname or given name ''Lamont'' or ''LaMont' ...
, a hamlet in Canada
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Star, Bryansk Oblast
Star (russian: Старь) is an urban locality (a work settlement) in Dyatkovsky District of Bryansk Oblast, Russia
Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcontinental country spanning ...
Star Mountains
The Star Mountains (Dutch (colonial)'': Sterrengebergte''; Indonesian'': Pegunungan Bintang'') are a mountain range in western Papua New Guinea and the eastern end of Highland Papua, Indonesia, stretching from the eastern end of Indonesia to the ...
, Papua New Guinea
Science and technology
Biology
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STAR (gene)
Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the STAR gene.
Function
The protein encoded by this gene plays a key role in the acute regulation of steroid hormone synthesis by enhancing the conversion of cho ...
, the gene that encodes steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
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Steroidogenic acute regulatory protein
The steroidogenic acute regulatory protein, commonly referred to as StAR (STARD1), is a transport protein that regulates cholesterol transfer within the mitochondria, which is the rate-limiting step in the production of steroid hormones. It is p ...
Star (Unix)
In computing, tar is a computer software utility for collecting many files into one archive file, often referred to as a tarball, for distribution or backup purposes. The name is derived from "tape archive", as it was originally developed ...
, an implementation of the tar file archiver
* Xerox Star, a 1981 computer workstation
* Kleene star, a wildcard symbol used in computer science
Mathematics
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Star (game theory)
In combinatorial game theory, star, written as * or *1, is the value given to the game where both players have only the option of moving to the zero game. Star may also be denoted as the surreal form . This game is an unconditional first-player wi ...
, a position in combinatorial game theory
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Star (graph theory)
In graph theory, a star is the complete bipartite graph a tree with one internal node and leaves (but no internal nodes and leaves when ). Alternatively, some authors define to be the tree of order with maximum diameter 2; in which case a ...
, a graph with a structure that resembles a star
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Star (simplicial complex)
The link in a simplicial complex is a generalization of the neighborhood of a vertex in a graph. The link of a vertex encodes information about the local structure of the complex at the vertex.
Link of a vertex
Given an abstract simplicial compl ...
, the set of simplices containing a given vertex in a simplicial complex
Other uses in science and technology
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STAR detector
The STAR detector (for Solenoidal Tracker at RHIC) is one of the four experiments at the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) in Brookhaven National Laboratory, United States.
The primary scientific objective of STAR is to study the formation an ...
, a particle physics experiment
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Synthetically thinned aperture radar Synthetic thinned aperture radiometry (STAR) is a method of radar in which the coherent product (correlation) of the signal from pairs of antennas is measured at different antenna-pair spacings (baselines). These products yield sample points in the ...
, an interferometric radar method
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Star Bus
Star Bus is a satellite bus family of Orbital ATK. It was originally developed by Thomas van der Heyden, co-founder of CTAI, and later sold to and manufactured by Orbital Sciences Corporation.
History
The first satellite program based on the Sta ...
Supporters' Trust at Reading
Supporters' Trust at Reading also known as STAR, is the official organisation representing the interests of supporters of Reading F.C., Reading Football Club. STAR is the successor to Reading Football Supporters’ Club (RFSC), which was establi ...
Star (keelboat)
The Star is a one-design racing keelboat for two people designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1910. The Star was an Olympic keelboat class from 1932 through to 2012, the last year keelboats appeared at the Summer Olympics.
It is sloop-rigged, with ...
, a one-design racing keelboat
* The Star (stadium), an indoor stadium in Frisco, Texas
Star (rocket stage) The Star is a family of US solid-propellant rocket motors originally developed by Thiokol and used by many space propulsion and launch vehicle stages. They are used almost exclusively as an upper stage, often as an apogee kick motor.
Three Star 3 ...
, a family of American solid-fuel rocket motors
Land
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Star (automobile)
The Star was an America automobile marque that was assembled by the Durant Motors Company between 1922 and 1928. Also known as the Star Car, Star was envisioned as a competitor against the Ford Model T and Chevrolet. In the United Kingdom, i ...
* , several Royal Navy ships
* , a US Navy wooden screw-steamer briefly named ''Star''
* MS ''Star'' (1978), originally ''Merzario Hispania'' and later MS ''Nordic Ferry'', a car ferry
* MS ''Star'' (2006), a Ro-Pax ferry operated by the Estonian ferry company Tallink
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Star (keelboat)
The Star is a one-design racing keelboat for two people designed by Francis Sweisguth in 1910. The Star was an Olympic keelboat class from 1932 through to 2012, the last year keelboats appeared at the Summer Olympics.
It is sloop-rigged, with ...
The Star (Ketchikan, Alaska)
The Star is a historic commercial building at 5 Creek Street in Ketchikan, Alaska, United States. It is the only one of a once-numerous collection of brothels that famously lined Creek Street to retain its historical integrity, and was one of th ...
, a historic commercial building in Ketchikan, Alaska
* Star (dog), a dog who was shot by the New York City Police
* Star, a horse coat facial marking
* , a reserve unit of the Canadian Maritime Command
* '' An-Najm'' ("The Star"), the 53rd ''sura'' of the Qur'an
* Pyrotechnic star, in fireworks displays
* Situation, task, action, result, an interview technique
* STAR voting (Score Then Automatic Runoff), a cardinal electoral system
* The Star (Tarot card), a Major Arcana tarot card
See also
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Stars (disambiguation)
Stars are luminous astronomical objects.
Stars or STARS may also refer to:
Arts and entertainment Fictional entities
* S.T.A.R. Labs, an organization in the DC Comics fictional universe
* S.T.A.R.S., a police group in the '' Resident Evil'' se ...
Asterisk
The asterisk ( ), from Late Latin , from Ancient Greek , ''asteriskos'', "little star", is a typographical symbol. It is so called because it resembles a conventional image of a heraldic star.
Computer scientists and mathematicians often voc ...
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Asterisk (disambiguation) An asterisk is a typographic symbol, the glyph ⟨*⟩.
Asterisk may also refer to:
* Asterisk (esports), an esports organization
* Asterisk (liturgy), a liturgical implement
* Asterisk (PBX), a software implementation of a private branch exchang ...
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Die Sterne (disambiguation) Die Sterne is a German pop band. "Die Sterne" translates as "the stars" and may also refer to:
* Die Sterne, D 176 (Schubert), "Die Sterne", D 176 (Schubert), “Was funkelt ihr so mild mich an”, 1815 song by Franz Schubert
* Die Sterne, D 313 (S ...
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Starr (disambiguation)
Starr may refer to:
People and fictional characters
* Starr (surname), a list of people and fictional characters
* Starr (given name), a list of people and fictional characters
Places
United States
* Starr, Ohio, an unincorporated com ...
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Starz (disambiguation) Starz is an American premium cable channel.
Starz may also refer to:
Film and television
* Starz Inc., a media holding company owning the cable channel and other Starz-branded operations
** Starz Distribution, the motion picture, animation, telev ...