Inspiral

Adjective

Word Frequency: 0.0

Definitions

1.AdjectiveDescribing the paths of a pair of astronomical bodies (e.g. binary stars or black holes) that are spiralling in towards each other, losing energy to gravitational waves.

2.NounThe path of such a body.

3.VerbTo spiral inward.

Synonyms

antispiral infalling left-handed one-start right-handed circumstellar quaquaversal resurgent laeotropic spatiokinematic anticircular periplegmatic

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