supercatastrophic
supercatastrophic adjective: very severely catastrophic.
Adjective
supercatastrophic (comparative more supercatastrophic, superlative most supercatastrophic)
- Very severely catastrophic.
- Outcome for supercatastrophic collision with strength dominant. For smaller collisional kinetic energies, the size of the largest fragment increases.1979, Tom Gehrels, Asteroids, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 535
- A "supercatastrophic" collision might provide sufficient energy and momentum not only to break up an asteroid but to disperse the fragments as well. In that case, the fragments would depart on independent, but still similar, heliocentric orbits. The fragments would rarely or never meet again, and...1981, Andrew Chaikin, Brian O'Leary, J. Kelly Beatty, The New Solar System, Cambridge University Press, Sky Publishing Corporation, page 104
Forms of supercatastrophic
| comparative | more supercatastrophic |
|---|---|
| superlative | most supercatastrophic |
Origin of supercatastrophic
From super- + catastrophic.
Questions about supercatastrophic
- What does supercatastrophic mean?
- Supercatastrophic means very severely catastrophic.
- What part of speech is supercatastrophic?
- Supercatastrophic is an adjective.
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