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light curve

noun Astronomy.

a graph showing variations in brightness of celestial objects over time.

Origin of light curve

First recorded in 1885–90

Words nearby light curve

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Example sentences from the Web for light curve

The lower curve is the light-curve of the star during a period of 7.167 days.

The Popular Science Monthly, October, 1900 |Various
These last are all to be determined from the nature of the light-curve.

Darwin and Modern Science |A.C. Seward and Others
Thus we have valuable evidence in confirmation of the correctness of the conclusions drawn from the light-curve.

Darwin and Modern Science |A.C. Seward and Others