infall

Speech parts

1. infall - Noun

2. infall - Verb

Meaning

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.

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Examples

The dark component is probably due to the infall of carbonaceous material, whereas the bright component is the original Vesta basaltic soil. Source: Internet

The dust is then replenished by the infall from comets. Source: Internet

The main model for this is a sufficiently massive core that the explosion is insufficient to reverse the infall of the outer layers onto a black hole. Source: Internet

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