Usually means: Disk of material orbiting celestial body.
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  1. accretion disk: Merriam-Webster
  2. accretion disk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. accretion disk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. accretion disk: Wiktionary
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  7. Accretion disk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  9. accretion disk: Merriam-Webster

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  1. accretion disk: Encyclopedia

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  1. Accretion Disk: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics
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  3. Accretion Disk: Extragalactic Astronomy
  4. ACCRETION DISK: Zoom Astronomy Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (accretion disk)

▸ noun:  (astrophysics) A structure formed by matter falling into a gravitational source such as a galaxy, black hole, or protostar.

Similar:
protoplanetary disk, circumplanetary disk, protoplanetary disc, photodisk, Alderson disk, antitruncation, accretionary prism, stellar disk, aponigricon, ring, more...

Opposite:
depletion zone, evacuation zone, void zone

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Similar:
protoplanetary disk, circumplanetary disk, protoplanetary disc, photodisk, Alderson disk, antitruncation, accretionary prism, stellar disk, aponigricon, ring, more...

Opposite:
depletion zone, evacuation zone, void zone



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