- 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...
- 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...
- (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...
-
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...
- 5 AU (520 million km; 330 million mi) from the Sun. As the
young planet accreted m****, its
interaction with the gas disk
orbiting the Sun and the orbital...
- 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...
- continent-on
continent collision or a
subduction zone.
Continents grow by
accreting lighter volcanic island chains and
microcontinents along these active...
-
Luzon Trough portion of the
Luzon Volcanic Arc and
South China,
where accreted portions of the
Luzon Arc and
Luzon forearc form the
eastern Coastal Range...
