galactic cannibalism
noun
The process by which a galaxy attracts matter from a neighbouring galaxy by gravitation, growing at its expense.
Origin
1970s.
- recollocate
- recolonise
- recolonization
- recolonize
- recolor
- recolour
- recombinable
- recombinant
- recombinant DNA
- recombinase
- recombination
- recombinational
- recombinationally
- recombinationless
- recombination line
- recombine
- recombinogenic
- recomember
- recomforting
- recommand
- recommence
- recommencement
- recommencer
- recommend
- recommendable