downbow
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
downbow (plural downbows)
- (music) A note performed on a string instrument by drawing the bow downward or to the right across the instrument, moving its point of contact from the frog toward the tip of the bow.
Verb[edit]
downbow (third-person singular simple present downbows, present participle downbowing, simple past and past participle downbowed)
- (geology) To curve or arc downwards.
- 1997, A. E. M. Nairn, A. S. Alsharhan, Sedimentary Basins and Petroleum Geology of the Middle East:
- Slumps and sediment gravity flow could signify steepening of the slope resulting from tectonic downbowing of the continental margin.