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ALL meanings of sunspot

sun·spot
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  • noun sunspot mark on the sun 1
  • noun sunspot one of the relatively dark patches that appear periodically on the surface of the sun and affect terrestrial magnetism and certain other terrestrial phenomena. 1
  • countable noun sunspot Sunspots are dark cool patches that appear on the surface of the sun and last for about a week. 0
  • noun sunspot any of the dark cool patches, with a diameter of up to several thousand kilometres, that appear on the surface of the sun and last about a week. They occur in approximately 11-year cycles and possess a strong magnetic field 0
  • noun sunspot a sunny holiday resort 0
  • noun sunspot a small cancerous spot produced by overexposure to the sun 0
  • noun sunspot any of the temporarily cooler regions appearing cyclically as dark spots on the surface of the sun, accompanied by increased geomagnetic disturbances 0
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