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What is ejecta?

What is ejecta? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Material which has been ejected, especially from a volcano or an impact crater.
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Fresh impact craters are surrounded by fluidized ejecta patterns, likely produced by impact into subsurface water and ice.
The stellar ejecta from the explosion initially trail behind the shock wave.
From the impact ejecta volume, he calculated a crater size of around 150 to 200 meters.
Rocky material formed by the accumulation of large ejecta is classified as agglomerate.
Melosh et al. proposed that wildfires were ignited by the thermal energy radiated by re-entering ejecta following the asteroid impact.
Impact ejecta deposits show a non-linear decrease in thickness with radial distance from the centre of the source crater.

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