Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word INFALL
INFALL
Definitions of INFALL
- The act or process of falling in.
- An incursion; an inroad.
- (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
- (astronomy, uncountable) Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
- (intransitive) To fall in.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To undergo infall.
Number of letters
6
Is palindrome
No
Examples of Using INFALL in a Sentence
- Dozens of research papers have been published in the attempt to describe the hydrodynamics of how that small one percent of the infalling energy is transmitted to the overlying mantle in the face of continuous infall onto the core.
- A study in 2020 concluded that Gaia detected a wobbling motion of the galaxy, which might be caused by "torques from a misalignment of the disc's rotation axis with respect to the principal axis of a non-spherical halo, or from accreted matter in the halo acquired during late infall, or from nearby, interacting satellite galaxies and their consequent tides".
- Further exemplary pieces referring to such theories are: Inscape, Early life, Stress Tensor, Mineral Life, Caressant l'horizon, InFALL, or.
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