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circumstellar disk

circumstellar disk is the alternative form of circumstellar disc.

Meaning of circumstellar disc

Noun

circumstellar disc (plural circumstellar discs)

  1. A torus-, pancake- or ring-shaped accretion disk of matter composed of gas, dust, planetesimals, asteroids, or collision fragments in orbit around a star.

Forms of circumstellar disk

pluralcircumstellar disks

Questions about circumstellar disk

What is circumstellar disk the alternative form of?
Circumstellar disk is the alternative form of circumstellar disc.

Words near circumstellar disk in the dictionary

  1. circumstaunce
  2. circumstaunces
  3. circumstellar
  4. circumstellar disc
  5. circumstellar discs
  6. circumstellar disk
  7. circumstomal
  8. circumstriate
  9. circumtabular
  10. circumterraneous
  11. circumterrestrial

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Adapted from Wiktionary: circumstellar disk (page history and authors); circumstellar disc (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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