wim

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wim (countable and uncountable, plural wims)

  1. (astronomy) Initialism of warm ionized medium.
    • 2015, J.M. Gomes, P. Papaderos, C. Kehrig, J.M. Vílchez, M.D. Lehnert, CALIFA collaboration, “Extended nebular emission in CALIFA early-type galaxies”, in arXiv‎:
      Confirming and strengthening our conclusions in Papaderos et al. (2013) we argue that ETGs span a broad continuous sequence with regard to the properties of their wim, and they can be roughly subdivided into two characteristic classes.

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