2. Noun. An incursion; an inroad. ¹
3. Noun. The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a stormdrain. ¹
4. Noun. (context: 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 ¹
5. Verb. (intransitive) To fall in. ¹
6. Verb. (intransitive astronomy) To undergo infall. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Infall
1. movement under the influence of gravity toward a celestial object [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Infall
Literary usage of Infall
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The bearings of the rate of infall on temperature.—The rate of accretion is a
matter of radical geologic importance; indeed, it is, in some measure, ..."
2. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"The bearings of the rate of infall on temperature.—The rate of accretion is a
matter of radical geologic importance; indeed, it is, in some measure, ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"The bearings of the rate of infall on temperature. — The rate of accretion is a
matter of ... infall ..."
4. A Text-book of Geology: For Use in Universities, Colleges, Schools of by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1915)
"This would force us to believe, therefore, either that planetesimal infall until
its latest stages was so rapid as to render negligible the influence of ..."
5. Northmost Australia: Three Centuries of Exploration, Discovery, and by Robert Logan Jack (1921)
"144 28^ ; the infall of the Kennedy (lat. 14° 56' S. and long. ... 144° 50'
E., via the infall of the Mosman River, near what is now Laura Railway Station ..."
6. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1899)
"The latitude as to variation of rate of infall would be rather large. The infall
must not have been so rapid as to have given a universal surface heat above ..."
7. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1902)
"Junction of Cound Brook with River Severn, showing change of infall on the convex
to infall on the concave. On the other hand, if the conditions are ..."
8. Earth Evolution and Its Facial Expression by William Herbert Hobbs (1921)
"Quite local surface melting from infall of meteoric bodies is quite in harmony
with our conception of the mechanics of the process. ..."
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