Usage: usually capitalized A
: a star of spectral type A — see spectral type table
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Astron.
a blue to white star, as Altair, Sirius, or Vega, having a surface temperature between 7500 and 10,000 K and an absorption spectrum dominated by Balmer-series lines of hydrogen. Cf. spectral type.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.