Roche lobe
noun Astronomy
Either of two lobes that form an hourglass-shaped volume of space around a binary star system.
Origin
1960s: named after E. A. Roche (see Roche limit).
- margined
- Marginella
- Marginellas
- marginellid
- marginelliform
- marginicidal
- marginiform
- marginless
- margin money
- margin of error
- margin of safety
- margin release
- margin-release key
- margin shell
- margo
- margosa
- margravate
- margrave
- margraviate
- margravine
- Margrethe II
- marguerite
- Margulies spiral
- marhaenism
- Marheshvan