supervirial
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Expanding at an accelerating rate.
Example Sentences
- "For example, the 0.5-2 Myr old Orion Nebula Cluster ( ONC ), which is known to be supervirial with a virial mass about twice the observed mass ( Hillenbrand & Hartmann 1998 ), has already expelled its residual gas and is expanding rapidly."
- "For many of the young (~10Myr) star clusters M_(dyn) >> Mₚₕₒₜ Goodwin & Bastian (2006) suggest that this is a signature of gas expulsion and the 'infant mortality' scenario discussed in Section 2.1, i.e., they conclude that these clusters are supervirial."
- "If measured early enough (lt;2 Myr in our simulations, or #92;sim20 crossing times), the velocity dispersion can be used to determine whether a region was highly supervirial at birth without the risk of degeneracy."
- "It is subvirial when Q 1, which corresponds to a positive acceleration of the polar inertia moment, Ï > 0 (initial expansion)."