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.
refinance. 1  to finance again. 2  to satisfy (a debt) by making another loan on new terms: She just refinanced her mortgage. 3  to increase or change the financing of, as by selling stock or obtaining additional credit.