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overcontact

overcontact adjective: describing a pair of binary stars having a common convective envelope.

Adjective

overcontact (not comparable)

  1. Describing a pair of binary stars having a common convective envelope

Origin of overcontact

From over- + contact.

Questions about overcontact

What does overcontact mean?
Overcontact means describing a pair of binary stars having a common convective envelope.
What part of speech is overcontact?
Overcontact is an adjective.

Words near overcontact in the dictionary

  1. overconsumer
  2. overconsumers
  3. overconsumes
  4. overconsuming
  5. overconsumption
  6. overcontact
  7. overcontented
  8. overcontentment
  9. overcontextualization
  10. overcontextualize
  11. overcontextualized

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