Sometime billions of years in the future, he predicts, the core and mantle could cool and solidify enough to meet the crust. If that happens, Earth will become a cold, dead planet like the moon. Long before such an occurrence, however, the Sun will likely have evolved into a red-giant star, and grown large enough to engulf our fair planet.
The term increment is occasionally used in physics and engineering to represent a small change in a parameter such as temperature, electric current, visible light intensity, or time. Also see Mathematical Symbols.
or US accouterment /ÉËkuËtrÉmÉnt/ /ÉËkuËtÉmÉnt/. plural accoutrements. Learner's definition of ACCOUTREMENT. [count] : a piece of clothing or equipment that is used in a particular place or for a particular activity â usually plural. The room had a fully stocked bar and all the accoutrements of a first-class hotel.