fainter
Speech parts
1. fainter - Noun
2. fainter - Adjective
Meaning
fainter (plural fainters)
One who faints.
fainter
comparative form of faint: more faint
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Examples
After that time its distance will begin to increase and it will become fainter, but it will continue to be the brightest star in the Earth's sky for the next 210,000 years.
A companion, Rigel B, is 500 times fainter than the supergiant Rigel A and visible only with a telescope.
Astronomers recommend giving your eyes at least 15 minutes to adjust to the dark to catch more of the fainter meteors - and don't look at your phone.
As the track progresses, the song becomes fainter and the news report louder.
For fainter stars or clusters of stars, we have analogous techniques (such as looking at the relative strengths of various emission or absorption lines) that can reveal their compositions as well.
In general this makes the colours of lanthanide complexes far fainter than those of transition metal complexes.