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Synonyms for outburst

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Synonyms for outburst

the act of emerging violently from limits or restraints

a sudden violent expression, as of emotion

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Synonyms for outburst

a sudden intense happening

a sudden violent disturbance

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Summary: TEHRAN (FNA)- Astronomers have been treated to a rare sighting of a star undergoing a massive growth spurt, when the star brightens as matter falls in on it, in a phenomenon known as an "outburst."
Presently, there are over 3, 000 glacial lakes, 52 of them in the north on the verge of outburst anytime, ' said Media Director Ministry of Climate Change Mohammad Saleem .
Spelling out the expected outcomes and benefits of the project's second phase, he said 95pc of households in target communities in KP and GB would be able to receive and respond to early warnings about glacial lake outbursts and consequent flooding in their areas and take appropriate measures to protect their lives and livelihoods.
NEW YORK -- Explosive outbursts or tantrums accompany nearly every psychiatric illness that affects children, but the specific features may help identify an etiology, according to Gabrielle A.
Early studies of the Lyrids suggested that the shower's dramatic outbursts might be linked to the proximity of Comet Thatcher to Earth, but since the comet orbits the Sun only once every 415 years, its return to our region of the solar system can't explain the outbursts, which follow a roughly 12-year cycle.
NEW YORK -- Although explosive outbursts or tantrums accompany nearly every psychiatric illness that affects children, the specific features may help identify an etiology, according to Gabrielle A.
Considering that the occurrence of coal and gas outbursts is mostly related to fault activity, the fault activation mechanism mainly consists of sliding faults and normal faults, and the former is more than the latter.
Following the analysis made for the model of civil violence, for each case, we will present the distributions of waiting times and sizes of the outbursts. To compare the results of the Epstein model with the present hybrid model, we used outburst quantity, waiting times, and outburst sizes.
"It is a lifelong condition and one of the many characteristics is outbursts.
The 58 papers cover general descriptions, central systems, and evolutionary pathways; the galactic nova population; the extra-galactic nova population; nova ejecta; the spectroscopic evolution of a nova outburst; the optical observations of novae; infrared observations of novae; modeling nova outbursts; gamma-ray, X-ray, and radio observations of novae, symbiotic systems, novae and related objects, stella novae: future decades.
Washington, May 24 ( ANI ): An international team of astronomers led by Lars Fuhrmann from the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, Germany, used some of the best single-dish radio telescopes for several years, in combination with NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, to study the place where high energy outbursts occur.
Vettel (left) and Button usually among the last to get involved in public outbursts.