Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An incursion; an inroad.
- n. A junction; a falling or running together, as of streams; the joining of one road with another.
- n. The inlet or place where water enters a reservoir or basin: generally confined to cases where the water in entering pours or falls in.
Wiktionary
- n. The act or process of falling in.
- n. An incursion; an inroad.
- n. countable The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
- n. astronomy, uncountable Movement towards a massive astronomical body under the influence of gravity; especially the process whereby gas falls towards a neutron star or black hole at high speed, forming a plasma
- v. intransitive To fall in.
- v. intransitive, astronomy To undergo infall.
Etymologies
- From in- + fall. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“For how the energetic cycles of that power the cell emerged, that alone has only entertained many interesting possibilities, hot core and cooler oceans, reducing ocean/sea floor/land and more oxidizing atmosphere, molecules generated by incubation in space and subsequent infall to earth, reacting with terrestrial molecules, photochemistry (from a uv-rich sun), concentration gradients of a wide variety of sorts, reactions of molecules produced by energetic processes involving meteor impact/burnup.”
“The infall is much smaller now, on the order of 5,500 tons per year and most in the form of micrometeorites or even smaller particles of interplanetary dust.”
“At this point the sky falls in and the editor, crying “Enough!” crouches submissively to the swaying floor, sobbing and crying like a baby pulverised by meteoric infall …”
“The power source for everything they were attempting to accomplish was the infall of matter from the three brown dwarf stars.”
“The result of that infall was the generation of a rotating magnetic field of tremendous strength.”
““If,” said he, “your Excellency wishes to make an infall into Argyleshire, this poor man, Ranald, of whom I told you, together with his children and companions, know every pass into that land, both leading from the east and from the north.””
“The amount of surface runoff and infiltration depends upon several factors: water infall rate, surface moisture, soil or rock texture, type and amount of surface cover (e.g., leaves and rooted plants), and surface topography.”
“However, there is a fine tuning problem with the initial distribution of causally-connected local matter and energy at the “time of first infall”.”
““Some eigenstate of the orientation operator” really means an infall of particles with which we can construct a * statistically normal* map.”
“The earth is a constant recipient of an enormous flux of solar radiation as well as considerable infall of the cosmic debris that also arrives periodically in huge, catastrophe-inducing encounters with other space bodies, particularly with massive comets and asteroids.”
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