Webster's Online Dictionary
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Specialty Expressions: Interplanetary shock
| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Interplanetary shock | Space | The abrupt boundary formed at the front of a plasma cloud (e.g.one from a coronal mass ejection) if it pushes its way through interplanetary space much faster than the rest of the solar wind. See bow shock. For an article about the impact of a large shock on the magnetosphere, click here. (references) | |
| Interplanetary shock particles | Aerospace | Particles accelerated by shocks associated with solar flares and CMEs. (references) | |
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