A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.
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shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
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A shaking, trembling, or concussion of the earth, due to subterranean causes, often accompanied by a rumbling noise. The wave of shock…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.Alt. of Landslide
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.To be agitated with quick, short motions continually repeated; to shake with fear, cold, etc.; to shudder; to tremble.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.A quaking of the sea.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.shaking and vibration at the surface of the earth resulting from underground movement along a fault plane or from volcanic activity
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.A pile or assemblage of sheaves of grain, as wheat, rye, or the like, set up in a field, the sheaves varying in number from twelve to…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.A trembling; a shivering or shaking; a quivering or vibratory motion; as, the tremor of a person who is weak, infirm, or old.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.Sale; opportunity to sell; market.
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.A mountain or hill, usually more or less conical in form, from which lava, cinders, steam, sulphur gases, and the like, are ejected; -…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology, Natural hazards.(geology) a constituent fragment of a clastic rock
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) a rock composed of broken pieces of older rocks
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it), also figuratively
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a…
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) line determined by the intersection of a geological fault and the earth's surface
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified
Used in the same subject area: Nature and environment, Geography, Geomorphology and geology.(geology) a crack in the earth's crust resulting from the displacement of one side with respect to the other; "they built it right ove…
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To strain apart; to sever by fracture; to divide with violence; as, to break a rope or chain; to break a seal; to break an axle; to br…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.Shortened or reduced; -- said of the distance of a planet from the sun or earth, as measured in the plane of the ecliptic, or the dist…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.A curve generated by a point in the plane of a circle when the circle is rolled along a straight line, keeping always in the same plan…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.A complete course or vibration; time of vibration, as of a pendulum.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.the solid part of the earth's surface; "the plane turned away from the sea and moved back over land"; "the earth shook for several min…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.The globe or planet which we inhabit; the world, in distinction from the sun, moon, or stars. Also, this world as the dwelling place o…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.The act of escaping; escape.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.Defect; want; lack; default.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.of Fault
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.The act of breaking or snapping asunder; rupture; breach.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.That branch of applied mathematics which determines, by means of observations and measurements, the figures and areas of large portion…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.of Grind
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: shaking, vibration, surface, earth, resulting.
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