- Look up
accretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Accretion may
refer to:
Accretion (astrophysics), the
formation of
planets and
other bodies by collection...
- A
hernia (pl.:
hernias or herniae, from Latin,
meaning 'rupture') is the
abnormal exit of
tissue or an organ, such as the bowel,
through the wall of the...
- In
plate tectonics, a
divergent boundary or
divergent plate boundary (also
known as a
constructive boundary or an
extensional boundary) is a
linear feature...
-
crust fragment formed on a
tectonic plate (or
broken off from it) and
accreted or "sutured" to
crust lying on
another plate. The
crustal block or fragment...
- in
order for the
planet to be able to
accrete an atmosphere. For a m****ive
enough planet, the
initial accreted gas can
quickly fill up the
Bondi sphere...
- (SSSB).
These come in many non-spherical
shapes which are
lumpy m****es
accreted haphazardly by in-falling dust and rock; not
enough m****
falls in to generate...
- the
white dwarf is
close enough to its
companion star to
start drawing accreted matter onto the
surface of the
white dwarf,
which creates a
dense but shallow...
- 5 AU (520 million km; 330 million mi) from the Sun. As the
young planet accreted m****,
interaction with the gas disk
orbiting the Sun and
orbital resonances...
-
potential energy and
increasing the
temperature of the gas. When the
accreting object is a
neutron star or a
black hole, the gas in the
inner accretion...
- continent-on
continent collision or a
subduction zone.
Continents grow by
accreting lighter volcanic island chains and
microcontinents along these active...
