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photoevaporated

photoevaporated is the simple past and past participle of photoevaporate.

Meaning of photoevaporate

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...

Adjective

photoevaporated (comparative more photoevaporated, superlative most photoevaporated)

  1. Subject to, or produce by photoevaporation

Forms of photoevaporated

comparativemore photoevaporated
superlativemost photoevaporated

Questions about photoevaporated

What does photoevaporated mean?
Photoevaporated means subject to, or produce by photoevaporation.
What is photoevaporated the simple past and past participle of?
Photoevaporated is the simple past and past participle of photoevaporate.
What part of speech is photoevaporated?
Photoevaporated is an adjective.

Words near photoevaporated in the dictionary

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

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