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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ejecta \E*jec"ta\, n. pl. [L., neut. pl. of ejectus cast out. See Eject.] Matter ejected; material thrown out; as, the ejecta of a volcano; the ejecta, or excreta, of the body.
Wiktionary
n. Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
Wikipedia
Ejecta (from the Latin: "things thrown", singular ejectum) refers to particles ejected from an area. In volcanology, in particular, the term refers to particles that came out of a volcanic vent, traveled through the air or under water, and fell back on the ground surface or on the ocean floor. Ejecta can consist of:
- juvenile particles - (fragmented magma and free crystals)
- cognate or accessory particles - older volcanic rocks from the same volcano
- accidental particles - derived from the rocks under the volcano
In planetary geology, this term includes the debris that is ejected during the formation of an impact crater, while in astrophysics, it refers to material expelled in a stellar explosion as in a supernova or in a coronal mass ejection.
Ejecta is material that is ejected from an area, such as from a volcanic or stellar eruption. It may also refer to:
Ejecta is a 2014 science fiction film that was directed by Chad Archibald and Matt Wiele. The film's script was written by Tony Burgess and stars Julian Richings as a man that has experienced an extraterrestrial encounter. Ejecta had its world premiere on August 3, 2014 at Fantasia Festival and Canadian film rights were purchased by Anchor Bay Canada.
Usage examples of "ejecta".
Schurig, who gives numerous examples in epileptics, maniacs, chlorotic young women, pregnant women, children who have soiled their beds and, dreading detection, have swallowed their ejecta, and finally among men and women with abnormal appetites.
Lots of carbon comes up with kimberlite ejecta, but most is vaporized or turns to graphite.
Much of the ejecta curtain was curling into orbit in what would become the smothering ashfall of days to come.
But in bedrock like this we can expect to find fragments in the breccias, recycled repeatedly from earlier ejecta blankets.
But the ejecta from Cavesson smacked into it and transferred enough momentum to shove it to a capture orbit.
Harried by squadrons of X- and E-wings disgorged from the warships Mon Adapyne and Elegos A'Kla, the enemy vessels were saturating local space with blazing projectiles and gouts of superheated ejecta, but they were already beginning to pay the price for having been caught unawares.
In the image on the screen Stickney's dome shone like a Faberge egg, but the eye was drawn away from that to the moon's leading edge, which was blurry and streaked with white flashes of ejecta and gases.
We scattered like ejecta from an explosion, firing our jet packs at maximum thrust in six different directions.
The Universe was littered with planetary nebulae, supernovae ejecta and the other debris of dying stars, all rich with complex&mdash.
The Universe was littered with planetary nebulae, supernovae ejecta and the other debris of dying stars, all rich with complex—.
Marglot was developing its own planetary ring, a disk of hot ejecta expelled by violent vulcanism.
Apogee and perigee and the sidereal day and ectocraters and the ejecta hypothesis.