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Infall vs Inwall - What's the difference?

infall | inwall |

As nouns the difference between infall and inwall

is that infall is the act or process of falling in while inwall is the refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.

As verbs the difference between infall and inwall

is that infall is to fall in while inwall is to shut in or enclose with walls.

infall

English

Noun

  • The act or process of falling in.
  • An incursion; an inroad.
  • (countable) The area where water, storm runoff, etc., enters a storm drain.
  • (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

    • Verb

  • To fall in.
  • (astronomy) To undergo infall.
  • *1997 , Bo Reipurth, Claude Bertout, Herbig-Haro flows and the birth of low mass stars :
    • After this time the beam mass loss rate decreases since once the expansion wave radius is larger than the beam, material initially outside the beam starts to infall and compensate for material which is collapsing at centre of the core [...]

    Derived terms

    * infalling

    References

    * Urban Exploration Resource

    Anagrams

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    inwall

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The refractory lining of the stack of a blast furnace; or the interior walls or lining of a shaft furnace.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To shut in or enclose with walls.
    • (Spenser)

    References

    * United States Bureau of Mines, Dictionary of Mining, Mineral, and Related Terms (1996).