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photoevaporating

photoevaporating is the present participle and gerund 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...

Noun

photoevaporating (uncountable)

  1. The process of photoevaporation

Questions about photoevaporating

What does photoevaporating mean?
Photoevaporating means the process of photoevaporation.
What is photoevaporating the present participle and gerund of?
Photoevaporating is the present participle and gerund of photoevaporate.
What part of speech is photoevaporating?
Photoevaporating is a noun.

Words near photoevaporating in the dictionary

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

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