- 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...
- Look up
accretion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Accretion may
refer to:
Accretion (astrophysics), the
formation of
planets and
other bodies by collection...
- 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...
- (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...
- are
generally thought to
result when one of the
stars (compact object)
accretes matter from
another (regular) star. The
presence of an
ordinary star in...
- System, as its
gravity perturbs their orbits inward roughly as
often as it
accretes or
ejects them. This
topic remains controversial among scientists, as some...
-
expected to be
produced by type Ia
supernovas of that
galaxy as
matter accretes on the
white dwarf from its
encircling companion. It has been concluded...
- two ways in
which a
coreless planet may form. In the first, the
planet accretes from chondrite-like
fully oxidized water-rich material,
where all the metallic...
- is
unable to
prevent catastrophic collapse. If a
white dwarf gradually accretes m**** from a
binary companion, or
merges with a
second white dwarf, the...
