Medical Definition of Tearing mode

1. A resistive magnetohydrodynamic instability which is spatially localised near a rational surface and which grows at a rate slower than the magnetohydrodynamic Alfven rate, but faster than the resistive skin diffusion rate. The instability tears magnetic field lines and reconnects them into a new state of lower magnetic energy. Synonym: tearing instability (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tearing Mode

tearfulness
tearfulnesses
teargas
teargases
tearier
teariest
tearily
teariness
tearinesses
tearing
tearing away
tearing down
tearing mode (current term)
tearingly
tearings
tearjerker
tearjerkers
tearjerking
tearjerkingly
tearless
tearlessly
tearlessness
tearlike
tearoom
tearooms
tearpit
tearpits

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