Roche zone
(also Roche's zone)
noun
The region of space within the Roche limit.
Origin
1940s; earliest use found in Astounding Science Fiction.
- pitch-black
- pitch-blackness
- pitchblende
- pitch block
- pitch-board
- pitch-brown
- pitch-cap
- pitch-capping
- pitch chain
- pitch circle
- pitch coal
- pitch contour
- pitch control
- pitch count
- pitch curve
- pitch-dark
- pitch darkness
- pitch diameter
- pitched battle
- pitcher
- pitcherful
- pitcher-house
- pitchering
- pitcher-mold
- pitcher-molding