wim

See also: wìm

English

Alternative forms

• WIM

Noun

wim (countable and uncountable, plural wims)

1. (astronomy) Initialism of warm ionized medium.
   • 2015, J.M. Gomes, P. Papaderos, C. Kehrig, J.M. Vílchez, M.D. Lehnert, CALIFA collaboration, “Extended nebular emission in CALIFA early-type galaxies”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     Confirming and strengthening our conclusions in Papaderos et al. (2013) we argue that ETGs span a broad continuous sequence with regard to the properties of their wim, and they can be roughly subdivided into two characteristic classes.

Anagrams

• MWI, WMI