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noun
A regime of accretion of material in a protoplanetary disk where only the most massive objects can continue to grow.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Qualifier: cosmogony
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
By analogy to oligarchies, where a few people dominate the leadership of a state.
