Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 8 compound words that contain halos. The most common are listed below. Open halos in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- radio halosplural of radio halo: A diffuse region of material, surrounding a galaxy or a pulsar, that emits radio waves.
- pleochroic halosplural of pleochroic halo: A microscopic spherical region in which there is a change in color from the surrounding mineral, due to radiation damage from alpha particles.
- galactic halosplural of galactic halo: An aggregation of individual stars, dust, and gas (and possibly dark matter) that surrounds a galaxy.
- neutron halosplural of neutron halo: A phenomenon that occurs in atomic nuclei when one or more neutrons tunnel out of the nucleus and into the surrounding space.
- nuclear halosplural of nuclear halo: A bunch of protons and/or neutrons orbiting a nucleus, giving the nucleus a bigger radius than it should have. Such a nucleus is called a halo nucleus.
- proton halosplural of proton halo: A rare nuclear structure where a nucleus has a loosely bound halo of protons orbiting around its core, causing the nucleus to have a significantly larger radius than typical nuclei.
- solar halosplural of solar halo: A ring of light that appears around the sun, caused by sunlight passing through ice crystals in the atmosphere.
- sprite halosplural of sprite halo: An upper-atmospheric optical phenomenon associated with thunderstorms, a diffuse disk-shaped glow that precedes a sprite and propagates downward.
Compound words 8
- halosaurA fish of any of the species in the family Halosauridae, deep-sea eel-like fish.
- haloscopesplural of haloscope: An instrument for exhibition or illustration of the phenomena of halos, parhelia, and the like.
- microhalosplural of microhalo: A small galactic halo.
- minihalosplural of minihalo: A relatively small, relatively cool halo
- phthalosplural of phthalo: A phthalocyanine.
- protohalosplural of protohalo: The assemblage of material that coalesces to form a galactic halo
- radiohalosplural of radiohalo: A microscopic spherical disturbance in a rock caused by a grain of radioactive material.
- subhalosplural of subhalo: A subset of a halo (of matter or dark matter around a galaxy)