protocluster
Astronomy
noun
A mass of gas and dust from which a cluster of galaxies is thought to develop.
Origin
1950s; earliest use found in Scientific Monthly.
- cryoplankton
- cryoprecipitate
- cryoprecipitation
- cryopreservation
- cryopreserve
- cryoprobe
- cryoprotect
- cryoprotectant
- cryoprotection
- cryoprotective
- cryopump
- cryopumping
- cry (or say or yell) uncle
- cryosar
- cryoscope
- cryoscopic
- cryoscopically
- cryoscopy
- cryosection
- cryosectioning
- cryosphere
- cryostasis
- cryostat
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