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Definition: Caldera |
CalderaNoun1. A large crater caused by the violent explosion of a volcano that collapses into a depression. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Electrical Engineering | Large, more or less circular, more-than-mile-in-diameter depression formed either by collapse(as a result of withdrawal of magma from beneath)or by explosion, usually at the summit of a volcano. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | Large, generally circular, fault-bounded depression caused by the withdrawal of magma from below a volcano or volcanoes. Commonly, the magma erupts explosively as from a giant volcano and, falling back to Earth as volcanic ash, fills the caldera so formed. (references) |
| A large volcanic collapse depression, commonly circular or elliptical when seen from above. (references) | |
Mining | A large, basin-shaped volcanic depression, more or less circular, the diameter of which is many times greater than that of the included vent or vents, no matter what the steepness of the walls or the form of the floormay be. CF:crater. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is about volcanic caldera. There is also a corporation called Caldera Systems.
A caldera is a volcanic crater which usually has a flat surface, at the bottom, formed by the hardening of a lava lake.
Yellowstone National Park is largely contained within the Yellowstone caldera.
Notable Calderas
- Askja (Iceland)
- La Palma (Spain)
- Long Valley (California)
- Valle Grande (New Mexico)
- Yellowstone caldera (Wyoming)
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Caldera."
Crosswords: Caldera |
| Non-English Usage: "Caldera" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. Spanish (boiler, caldera, caldron, cauldron, copper). |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Close-up mosaic of Olympus Mons' caldera. Credit: NASA. |  | Lava Cove, Sequam Island Circular volcanic caldera Shore party from C&GS Ship PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |
 | View from Sequam Island camp site View of volcanic caldera with black sand beach Party off of PIONEER. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection. |  | Kilauea Caldera Crater. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | A view down into the Mount Erebus volcano caldera. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | A boiling lake in a volcanic caldera. Credit: Small World. |
 | Katmai Caldera. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. | ||
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| "Caldera Buildings" by Ian Court Commentary: "A small group of buildings on the edge of the Santorini caldera." | "Haleakala" by Jesse Adams Commentary: "This image is of Haleakala looking from the top of its caldera to the bottom. ." |
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Economic History | Costa Rica | There is only one oilseed crusher in Costa Rica, INOLASA, located near the Pacific port of Caldera (where all bulk grains arrive). (references) |
Venezuela | President Caldera signed landmark legislation in June 1997 (Extraordinary Official Gazette No. 5152 dated June 19, 1997) to reform the outdated and unworkable severance pay system in the Organic Labor Law. (references) | |
Human Rights | Venezuela | There have been no meetings between President Chavez and NGO's to discuss human rights issues since 1999. The Government also continued to fail to support the National Human Rights Commission created by former President Rafael Caldera in 1996 as a mechanism to coordinate the Government's human rights programs and to serve as a forum for dialog with NGO's. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Caldera" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 90.00% of the time. "Caldera" is used about 20 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 90% | 18 | 82,615 |
| Unclassified Items | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Noun (proper) | 5% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 20 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "caldera" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Caldera | Last name | 2,000 | 6,094 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| Country | Name |
| USA | Caldera Systems, Inc. |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "caldera": caldera-forming, caldera-graben, caldera-hosted. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "caldera"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 破火山口. (various references) | |
French | caldeira sommitale (summit caldera). (various references) | |
German | Krater (calderas, crater, sinkhole). (various references) | |
Greek | καλδέρα. (various references) | |
Indonesian | kaldera (caldera (of a volcano)). (various references) | |
Italian | caldera sommitale (summit caldera). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | カルスト地形 (boy, cardamom, cartel, Cartier, clinical records, cultivator, culture, culture center, culture shock, karst, quartet, Quartier Latin). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | カルデラ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | alderacay.(various references) | |
Spanish | crater, caldera (boiler, caldron, cauldron, copper). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "caldera": calderas. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "caldera" (pronounced ka'lde"ru or kô'lde"ru) |
| 3 | -e" r u | chimera, era, guayabera, mascara, naira, para, Primavera, Riviera, Sierra, Terra, Vera. |
| 3 | -e" r u | chimera, era, guayabera, mascara, naira, para, Primavera, Riviera, Sierra, Terra, Vera. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: craaled. | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-e-l-r" | |
-1 letter: alcade, arcade, cradle, credal, reclad. | |
-2 letters: acred, alder, arced, areal, areca, cadre, cared, carle, cedar, clade, clear, craal, decal, laced, lacer, lader, raced. | |
-3 letters: aced, acre, alae, alar, alec, area, cade, card, care, carl, clad, dace, dale, dare, deal, dear, earl, lace, lade, lard, lead, lear, race, rale, read, real. | |
-4 letters: aal, ace, ala. | |
-5 letters: aa. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-e-l-r" | |
+1 letter: calderas, calendar. | |
+2 letters: barnacled, calendars, caracoled, cathedral, declarant, escalader, lacerated, placarded. | |
+3 letters: acrylamide, aldermanic, altercated, berascaled, broadscale, calamander, calendared, calibrated, camelopard, candelabra, caracolled, cardplayer, cathedrals, cavaliered, charcoaled, charladies, cladoceran, declarable, declarants, defalcator, epicardial, eradicable, escaladers, landscaper, octahedral, radicalise, radicalize, rebalanced, sacerdotal. | |
+4 letters: accelerando, accelerated, acrylamides, aeromedical, articulated, barefacedly, blackhander, calamanders, calendaring, calendrical, camelopards, candelabras, candelabrum, caramelised, caramelized, cardinalate, cardplayers, caterwauled, cladocerans, clapboarded, clearheaded, declamatory, declaration, declarative, declaratory, defalcators, desacralize, diametrical, discardable, endocardial, icosahedral, irradicable, landscapers, paramedical, pericardial, radicalised, radicalises, radicalized, radicalizes, radicalness, reallocated, recanalized, redactional, reescalated, relandscape, straitlaced, tabernacled. | |
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