ejecta

See also: éjecta

English

Etymology

Neuter plural of Latin ējectus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈjektə/, /əˈdʒɛktə/

Noun

1. (geology) Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
   • 2006, Alessandro Montanari, Christian Koeberl, Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record, Springer (→ISBN), page 57:

     Distal ejecta are, by definition, those ejecta that occur at considerable distances from the source crater (>5 crater radii from the crater rim; see, e.g., Melosh 1989). They either consist of (usually fine-grained) rock and mineral fragments or are of glassy consistency.

Translations

material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 噴出物／喷出物, 喷出物 (pēnchūwù)

• Finnish: heite (fi)
• French: éjecta (fr) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: Ejecta f
• Japanese: 噴出物 (ふんしゅつぶつ, funshutsubutsu)
• Russian: вы́бросы (ru) m pl (výbrosy)

Further reading

• “ejecta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) ējectā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ējectō
2. feminine singular supine of ējiciō
3. neuter plural supine of ējiciō

References

• ejecta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)