Definitions
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- noun astronomy A relatively small, relatively cool
halo
Etymologies
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mini- + halo
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When they first identified a dark matter minihalo that contained a cooling, gravitationally collapsing gas region, they "re-zoomed" the calculation and focused on that region alone.
Ars Technica Matt Ford 2011
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