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photoevaporate

photoevaporate verb: to ionise gas and cause it to disperse.

Verb

photoevaporate (third-person singular simple present photoevaporates, present participle photoevaporating, simple past and past participle photoevaporated)

  1. To ionise gas and cause it to disperse.
    • High-mass stars rapidly (~ 10⁵ yr) photoevaporate the outer (r > 5 AU) portions of their disks […]2006 June 8, Sabine Richling, David Hollenbach, Harold W. Yorke, “Destruction of protoplanetary disks by photoevaporation”, in Hubert Klahr, Wolfgang Brandner, editor, Planet Formation: Theory...

Forms of photoevaporate

third-person singular presentphotoevaporates
present participlephotoevaporating
past participlephotoevaporated
pastphotoevaporated

Origin of photoevaporate

From photo- + evaporate.

Questions about photoevaporate

What does photoevaporate mean?
Photoevaporate means to ionise gas and cause it to disperse.
What part of speech is photoevaporate?
Photoevaporate is a verb.
What is the past tense of photoevaporate?
The past tense of photoevaporate is photoevaporated.

Words near photoevaporate in the dictionary

  1. photoetcher
  2. photoetchers
  3. photoetches
  4. photoetching
  5. photoetchings
  6. photoevaporate
  7. photoevaporated
  8. photoevaporating
  9. photoevaporation
  10. photoevaporative
  11. photoevolution

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