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synestias

synestias is the plural of synestia.

Meaning of synestia

Noun

synestia (plural synestias)

  1. A donut-shaped body of vaporized and molten rock formed from the collision of two planet-sized objects.
    • For any rotating planetary body, there is a thermal limit beyond which the rotational velocity at the equator intersects the Keplerian orbital velocity. Beyond this corotation limit (CoRoL), a hot planetary body forms a structure, which we name a synestia, with a corotating inner region connected...2017 May 23, SJ Lock, ST Stewart, “The structure of terrestrial bodies: Impact heating, corotation limits, and synestias”, in Journal of Geophysical Research

Questions about synestias

What is synestias the plural of?
Synestias is the plural of synestia.

Words near synestias in the dictionary

  1. synesthete
  2. synesthetes
  3. synesthetic
  4. synesthetically
  5. synestia
  6. synestias
  7. synetic
  8. synexin
  9. synexins
  10. synexpression
  11. synextensional

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