An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics
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Process by which a → collapsing → giant molecular cloud breaks into dense → clumps, eventually bringing about → pre-stellar cores.

→ cloud; → fragmentation.

Generally, the process of breaking up into smaller parts. In particular, the splitting of a large molecular cloud into smaller, denser clumps. → cloud fragmentation.

From → fragmenta + -ation, a combination of -ate and -ion, used to form nouns from stems in -ate.

Latpâreš, verbal noun from latpâridan, → fragment.

The succession of physical events that results in the breaking of a → molecular cloud into several → fragments.

→ fragmentation; → process.