DEBRIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does debris mean? 

• DEBRIS (noun)
  The noun DEBRIS has 1 sense:

1. the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

  Familiarity information: DEBRIS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEBRIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Synonyms:

debris; detritus; dust; junk; rubble

Hypernyms ("debris" is a kind of...):

rubbish; scrap; trash (worthless material that is to be disposed of)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "debris"):

slack (dust consisting of a mixture of small coal fragments and coal dust and dirt that sifts out when coal is passed over a sieve)

 Context examples 

Material, such as purulent and nonpurulent fluid, cells, or cellular debris, which has escaped from blood vessels and has been deposited in tissues or on tissue surfaces, usually as a result of inflammation.

(Exudate, NCI Thesaurus)

Attached to the debris, they identified persistent organic pollutants — very stable compounds resistant to chemical and biological degradation — such as polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs).

(Microplastic pollution adds to oceans’ problems, scidev.net)

The star appears to be circled by a huge disc of debris, which could suggest the worlds are being regularly hit by asteroids and comets.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

It's thought that the original satellite system was disrupted when Neptune captured its giant moon, Triton, and that these inner moons and rings formed from the leftover debris.

(NASA Finds Neptune Moons Locked in 'Dance of Avoidance', NASA)

Such events can create debris that can reach the inner solar system.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

Astronomers captured these dramatic images as they explored the firework-like debris from the birth of a group of massive stars, demonstrating that star formation can be a violent and explosive process too.

(ALMA Captures Dramatic Stellar Fireworks, ESO)

Presence of necrotic cellular debris within the lumen of the neoplastic glands in the colorectal mucosa.

(Dirty Necrosis, NCI Dictionary)

A very thick cloud of dusty debris now orbits the star in the zone where rocky planets form.

(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)

They will eventually explosively end their lives in a supernova, leaving behind rich debris of gas and dust.

(Stellar Nursery Blooms into View, ESO)

The debris from such a tidal disruption became very hot and produced X-rays before disappearing forever across the black hole's point of no return, or event horizon.

(NASA’s Chandra Detects Record-Breaking Outburst from Milky Way’s Black Hole, NASA)