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Meanings of accretion disk in English

Russian
аккреционный диск
Portuguese
disco de acreção
Spanish
disco de acrecion
Catalan
disc d'acreció
Wikidata

Structure formed by diffuse material in orbital motion around a massive central body.

аккреционный диск
Synonyms
Examples for "accretion disc"
Examples for "accretion disc"
1
The star was too old for the rings to be categorized as any kind of accretion disc.
The evolutionary void
Usage of accretion disk in English
1
And there's as yet no sign of an accretion disk of plasma, dust, gas -or even orbiting stars.
News.com.au
2
All of the radiation and energized particulate matter it was blowing outward fell back and became part of the accretion disk.
Star trek movie tie-in
3
Earth orbits a mere twenty million kilometers from its necrosun in this epoch, and the fires of the accretion disk are banked.
Palimpsest
4
But not Old Earth, of course, merely the pulsing accretion disk and globular cloud of debris which had once been Old Earth.
The Hyperion Cantos
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