different between infalling vs infall
infalling
English
Adjective
infalling (not comparable)
- (astronomy) Moving towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity
Related terms
- infall
Anagrams
- falling in
infalling From the web:
infall
English
Etymology
From in- +? fall.
Pronunciation
- (noun) IPA(key): /??nf??l/
- (verb) IPA(key): /?n?f??l/
Noun
infall (countable and uncountable, plural infalls)
- The act or process of falling in.
- An incursion; an inroad.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Carlyle to this entry?)
- (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
Verb
infall (third-person singular simple present infalls, present participle infalling, simple past infell, past participle infallen)
- (intransitive) To fall in.
- (intransitive, astronomy) To undergo infall.
- 1997, Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars:
- After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]
- 1997, Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars:
Derived terms
- infalling
References
- Urban Exploration Resource
Anagrams
- Fallin, fall in, fallin'
Swedish
Etymology
From falla in, to realize.
Pronunciation
Noun
infall n
- a sudden idea, a whim
Declension
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