AM CVn star
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AM CVn star
(162 ¦ā¦em ¦sē¦vē′en ′stär)
(astronomy) A binary system consisting of two orbiting white dwarf stars which fill their respective Roche lobes, exchange mass at the point of contact, and vary in brightness due to eclipses of one white dwarf by the other.
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