- In
plate tectonics, a
divergent boundary or
divergent plate boundary (also
known as a
constructive boundary or an
extensional boundary) is a
linear feature...
- 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...
-
transporting plate, and
accreted onto the
overriding plate. Therefore, the
terrane transferred from one
plate to the other. Typically,
accreting terranes are portions...
- the
London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor). It is the
opposite of the
accreting swap. If the swap
allows for
uncertain contingent ups and
downs in the...
- the
white dwarf is
close enough to its
companion star to
start drawing accreted matter onto its surface,
creating a
dense but
shallow atmosphere. This...
-
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...
- (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...
- into a
denser object called a
neutron star. Carbon–oxygen
white dwarfs accreting m**** from a
neighboring star
undergo a
runaway nuclear fusion reaction...
- 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...
