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Meaning of "ejecta" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD EJECTA

Latin, literally: (things) ejected.

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

PRONUNCIATION OF EJECTA

ɪˈdʒɛktə


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF EJECTA

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Ejecta is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES EJECTA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Ejecta

Ejecta refers to particles ejected from an area. In volcanology, in particular, the term refers to particles that came out of a volcanic vent, traveled through the air or under water, and fell back on the ground surface or on the ocean floor. Ejecta can consist of: ▪ Juvenile particles - ▪ Cognate or accessory particles - older volcanic rocks from the same volcano ▪ Accidental particles - derived from the rocks under the volcano. In planetary geology, this term includes the debris that is ejected during the formation of an impact crater, while in astrophysics, material expelled in a stellar explosion like in supernova or in coronal mass ejection.

Definition of ejecta in the English dictionary

The definition of ejecta in the dictionary is matter thrown out of a crater by an erupting volcano or during a meteorite impact.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH EJECTA

cine-projector · collector · connecter · dejecta · detector · director · ejector · hector · injector · inspector · microprojector · nectar · perfecta · projector · protector · rector · respecter · sector · selector · vector

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE EJECTA

eiswein · either · either-or · Eivissa · ejaculate · ejaculatio praecox · ejaculation · ejaculative · ejaculator · ejaculatory · eject · ejectable · ejectamenta · ejection · ejection seat · ejective · ejectively · ejectment · ejector · ejector seat

WORDS THAT END LIKE EJECTA

acta · analecta · dicta · exacta · latera recta · obiter dicta · octa · osteogenesis imperfecta · recta · sancta · selecta · superfecta · trifecta · Victa · virgo intacta

Synonyms and antonyms of ejecta in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «ejecta» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF EJECTA

Find out the translation of ejecta to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of ejecta from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «ejecta» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

喷出物
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

eyecciones
570 millions of speakers
en

English

ejecta
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

उत्सर्ग
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الطراحة
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

Ejecta
278 millions of speakers
pt

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ejecta
270 millions of speakers
bn

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ejecta
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

éjectas
220 millions of speakers
ms

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Ejecta
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Auswurf
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

噴出物
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

분출물
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Ejecta
85 millions of speakers
vi

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ejecta
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

இந்த உமிழ்வு
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

Ejecta
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

ejecta
70 millions of speakers
it

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ejecta
65 millions of speakers
pl

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ejecta
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

Ejecta
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

provocat de impact
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ejecta
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

partikels
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ejecta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ejecta
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of ejecta

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «EJECTA»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about ejecta

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «EJECTA»

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Distal Impact Ejecta Layers: A Record of Large Impacts in ...
except for large impacts (impacts producing craters larger than *90 km in diameter) where the ejecta is transported over most or all of the globe. One effect of the Earth's rotation is that the eastward rotational velocity of the Earth (0.463 km/s) is ...
Billy P. Glass, Bruce M. Simonson, 2012
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Lunar Sourcebook: A User's Guide to the Moon
A User's Guide to the Moon Grant Heiken David Vaniman, Bevan M. French. TABLE 4.3. Dimensional relations of crater ejecta. * This column indicates the range of rim-to-rim crater diameter values (D) used to establish relations for other crater ...
Grant Heiken, David Vaniman, Bevan M. French, 1991
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The Cretaceous-Tertiary Event and Other Catastrophes in ...
DISPERSAL VIA EJECTA CURTAIN AND FIREBALL Hildebrand and Boynton ( 1988) and Bohor (1990) subdivide the double KT boundary layer in the western interior of North America into an "ejecta layer" or "melt-ejecta layer" below and a ...
Graham Ryder, David E. Fastovsky, Stefan Gartner, 1996
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Atmospheric Interactions During Global Deposition of ...
The Chicxulub ejecta spherules travelling in the impact plume at hypersonic velocities deposited a large quantity of energy in the upper atmosphere, heating both air and spherules, altering both the mechanical style of spherule descent and ...
Tamara Joan Goldin, 2008
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Large Meteorite Impacts III
Hence, the particular multiple coated ejecta particles (“tektite in tektite” textures) record the time-tem- perature path from ejection of the melt until cooling at the water surface, well comparable to “coated gneiss” bombs observed at the Popigai ...
Thomas Kenkmann, Friedrich Hörz, Alexander Deutsch, 2005
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Comets and the Origin and Evolution of Life
A second reason is that the lower gravity means that the ejecta carry less specific energy, while the most energetic ejecta escape. For a high velocity impact the specific energy goes as the ratio of the square of the escape velocities. (In a low ...
Paul J. Thomas, Roland D. Hicks, Christopher F. Chyba, 2006
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Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record
Distal ejecta are, by definition, those ejecta that occur at considerable distances from the source crater (>5 crater radii from the crater rim; see, e.g., Melosh 1989). They either consist of (usually fine-grained) rock and mineral fragments or are of  ...
Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl, 2000
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Geological Implications of Impacts of Large Asteroids and ...
As high-speed ejecta re-enter the atmosphere, ablated material is left in the wake . Such ablation products will have very small (10 to IOOum) sizes owing to extreme aero— dynamic stresses, as indicated in a previous section. Experiments ...
Leon Theodore Silver, Peter H. Schultz, 1982
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Impact Cratering: Processes and Products
ejecta from a particular basin (Ryder and Bower, 1977; Spudis, 1993). In other cases, physical association with a particular (small) crater has led to the interpretation that particular lunar samples are ejecta from that crater. For example ...
G. R. Osinski, E. Pierazzo, 2012
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Planetary Sciences
179 Figure 5.31 The excavation flow forms an outward expanding conical ejecta curtain. The excavation flow in a large planetary impact is thought to be very similar to that from this small impact in a laboratory. (Courtesy P.H. Schultz) 180 181 ...
Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «EJECTA»

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Cutting through Martian history
Remnants of the crater's ejecta blanket – the debris that is thrown out during an impact – have also been truncated and can be seen on the ... «Phys.Org, Jul 15»
2
Astrophysics: A twist in the tale of γ-ray bursts
The magnetic-field strength, spin period and ejecta mass can be chosen to fit many shapes of supernova light curves, not just this one. «Nature.com, Jul 15»
3
TGIF: Happenings -- what's coming up in Northeast Ohio starting …
... Dre Mikal, July 15; Ex-Hex, Tweens, Goldmines, July 16; Lower Dens, Young Ejecta, Nights, July 17; DMC, Doxxbay, Ahptimus, Case Barge, ... «News-Herald.com, Jul 15»
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Batu Tara volcano 30 June - 4 July 2015: eruptions
On the evening of 2 July, a strong eruption, particularly rich in ejecta occurs and causes a pyrocla... (4 Hits). Pyroclastic flow traveling down the ... «VolcanoDiscovery, Jul 15»
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What's Happenin': Thursday, July 9, through Wednesday, July 22
Concert with the Baltimore-based indie pop musicians, with opening sets by Samantha Crain and Young Ejecta. Rozz-Tox (2108 Third Avenue, ... «River Cities Reader, Jul 15»
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Differential miRNA expressions in peripheral blood mononuclear …
... develop biomarkers by detecting circulating cell-free miRNAs that escape from malignant cells and end up as detectable ejecta in circulation ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
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White Spots, Lone Mountains, and Other Funny Business on Ceres
You'd need to expose fresh salt somehow, but then you'd expect that to look like fresh craters on the moon, with bright ejecta instead of just ... «Discover Magazine, Jul 15»
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Month in Space: Trip the Light Fantastic on the Final Frontier
... released on June 8. Scientists say the crater is relatively recent, geologically speaking, because it has a sharp rim and well-preserved ejecta. «NBCNews.com, Jun 15»
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10 Breathtaking Shots of the Northern Lights
However, the SWPC spotted a second "coronal mass ejection" on Monday whose ejecta is expected to hit Earth later tonight. Industry and ... «PC Magazine, Jun 15»
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A Dust Cloud Around the Moon
But debris is hitting the Moon constantly and thus, the ejecta thrown up from these impacts is constant. In principle, the Moon should be ... «Air & Space Magazine, Jun 15»
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