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.
Definition of indent. 1  transitive verb. 2  1a : to divide (a document) so as to produce sections with irregular edges that can be matched for authenticationb : to draw up (something, such as a deed) in two or more exactly corresponding copies. 3  2 : to notch the edge of : make jagged. 4  3 : indenture.