weathering
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wederyng, equivalent to weather + -ing.
Pronunciation
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Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
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weathering (countable and uncountable, plural weatherings)
- (obsolete) Weather, especially favourable or fair weather.
- (geology) Mechanical or chemical breaking down of rocks in situ by weather or other causes.
- 1965, Lawrence Martin, The Physical Geography of Wisconsin, Univ of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 217:
- At that point the cuesta is 10 miles wide but the hilltops have an eastward descent of only about 62 feet. In its general eastward slope the surface of the cuesta is exactly that of one made by weathering and stream erosion, acting upon a gently-dipping limestone bed in a region never glaciated.
- 1997 August 15, John N. Christensen et al., “Climate and Ocean Dynamics and the Lead Isotopic Records in Pacific Ferromanganese Crusts”, in Science[1], volume 277, number 5328, , pages 913–918:
- Furthermore, changes in continental weathering and riverine contributions to the oceans may also be linked with climate, and hydrothermal inputs vary with tectonism.
- (architecture) A slight inclination given to an approximately horizontal surface to enable it to throw off water.
- The action of weather on objects exposed to it.
Derived terms
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[edit]breaking down of rocks
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Verb
[edit]weathering
- present participle and gerund of weather
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