termination shock
Noun
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Noun
termination shock (plural termination shocks)
- (astronomy) the boundary marking one of the outer limits of the Sun's influence, where the solar wind dramatically slows
- (astronomy) by extension, that point for space around any star
- French: choc terminal
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