end-member

English

Noun

end-member (plural end-members)

1. Alternative form of endmember.
   • 1990, Roy Chester, “The Transport of Material to the Oceans: The Atmospheric Pathway”, in Marine Geochemistry, London: Unwin Hyman, →DOI, →ISBN, page 43:

     The physicochemical processes that control the estuarine filter must therefore be considered to operate in terms of a framework involving particulate-dissolved recycling associated with three estuarine end-members, i.e. river water, sea water (which may consist of more than one component end-member), and sediments.