Cepheid Sentence Examples

A large eccentricity also produces an unsymmetrical light variation, the minimum occurring at a time not midway between two maxima; stars of this character are called Cepheid variables, after the typical star S Cephei.

Cepheid (variable)is a sort of star known as a cepheid variable.

They pulsate with a period between 5 and 15 hours (Cepheid pulsation periods are greater than 24 hours).