ejecta

Neuter plural of Latin ējectus.

• IPA^(key): /əˈjektə/, /əˈd͡ʒɛktə/

ejecta pl (plural only)

1. (geology) Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
   • 2006, Alessandro Montanari; Christian Koeberl, Impact Stratigraphy: The Italian Record, Springer, →ISBN, page 57:

     Distal ejecta are, by definition, those ejecta that occur at considerable distances from the source crater (>5 crater radii from the crater rim; see, e.g., Melosh 1989). They either consist of (usually fine-grained) rock and mineral fragments or are of glassy consistency.

• “ejecta”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

ējectā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ējectō

• ejecta in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

From French éjecter.

a ejecta (third-person singular present ejectează, past participle ejectat) 1st conj.

1. to eject