starquake
starquake noun: a violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.
Noun
starquake (plural starquakes)
- A violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.
- Astronomers call the sudden changes in the neutron star starquakes. The energy released in a starquake is enormous and flows out from the star into the space surrounding it. After the 1969 starquake on the Crab pulsar, a wave of energy was seen to flow outwards, rippling through the centre of the...1985, Paul Murdin, Lesley Murdin, New Astronomy, page 131
- Starquakes in slowing neutron stars drive matter toward the magnetic poles, distort the star's shape, and excite precession.2000, Richard I. Epstein, Bennett Link, Starquake-Induced Glitches in Pulsars, Kwong-Sang Cheng H, F, Chau, K. L. Chan, K. C. Leung (editors), Stellar Astrophysics: Proceedings of the Pacific Rim...
Forms of starquake
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Origin of starquake
Blend of star + earthquake.
Questions about starquake
- What does starquake mean?
- Starquake means a violent tremor or quake that occurs on or near the surface of a star, especially a collapsed star.
- What part of speech is starquake?
- Starquake is a noun.
- What is the plural of starquake?
- The plural of starquake is starquakes.
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