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Roche lobes

Roche lobes is the plural of Roche lobe.

Meaning of Roche lobe

Noun

Roche lobe (plural Roche lobes)

  1. The teardrop-shaped region around a star in a binary system within which orbiting material is gravitationally bound to that star.
    • A further interesting situation (although not one of much relevance for this book) comes about if both stars for some reason fill their Roche lobes simultaneously.2002, Juhan Frank, Andrew King, Derek Raine, Accretion Power in Astrophysics, page 54

Questions about Roche lobes

What is Roche lobes the plural of?
Roche lobes is the plural of Roche lobe.

Words near Roche lobes in the dictionary

  1. Rochdale principles
  2. roche
  3. Roche limit
  4. Roche limits
  5. Roche lobe
  6. Roche lobes
  7. roche moutonnée
  8. Roche radii
  9. Roche radius
  10. Roche sphere
  11. Roche spheres

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