• v.
    ⦿bring about the capture of an elementary particle or celestial body and causing it enter a new orbit
    lexical concept
  • The star captured a comet
  • This nucleus has captured the slow-moving neutrons

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Lexical context

wn:part of speechverb
ontolex:lexicalized senseenl:capture
wn:interlingual indexili:i33252

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skos:is in schemeOpen English WordNet
rdfs:labelcapture