PLANETESIMAL HYPOTHESIS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

(cosmology) the theory that the solar system was formed by the gravitational accumulation of planetesimals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("planetesimal hypothesis" is a kind of...):

scientific theory (a theory that explains scientific observations)

Domain category:

cosmogeny; cosmogony; cosmology (the branch of astrophysics that studies the origin and evolution and structure of the universe)

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