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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

accre′tion disk′, [Astron.]

Astronomythe rapidly spinning disk of gas that forms around the more compact component of a close binary star system as mass is transferred to the compact companion from the primary star.

1975–80

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