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| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | A flowage of heterogeneous debris with much lubrication by water usually following a former streamcourse. Source: European Union. (references) |
Geological | The flowing mixture of water and debris (intermediate between a volcanic avalanche and a water flood) that forms on the slopes of a volcano. Sometimes called a debris flow or lahar, a term from Indonesia where volcanic mudflows are a major hazard. (Teacher's Packet) * A flowage of water-saturated earth material possessing a high degree of fluidity during movement. A less-saturated flowing mass is often called a debris flow. A mudflow originating on the flank of a volcano is properly called a lahar. (Foxworthy and Hill, 1982)* See: Lahar. (references) |
| Same as debris flow. (references) | |
Mining | A general term for a mass-movement landform and a process characterized by a flowing mass of predominantly fine-grained earth material possessing a high degree of fluidity during movement. The water content of mudflows may range up to 60%. With increasing fluidity, mudflows grade into loaded and clear streams; with a decrease in fluidity, they grade into earthflows.Syn:lahar. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: MUDFLOW |
| Specialty definitions using "MUDFLOW": cross-section designed for debris flow ♦ Debris flow ♦ Nevado del Ruiz. (references) |
| "MUDFLOW" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "MUDFLOW" is used about 6 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) | 100% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "MUDFLOW"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | lave torrentielle (mudrock, mudrock flow). (various references) | |
German | Murgang (mudrock, mudrock flow, torrential wash), Mure (mudrock, mudrock flow, torrential wash). (various references) | |
Italian | trasporto di massa (mudrock, mudrock flow, torrential wash), colata di fango (mud slide, mudrock, mudrock flow, mudslide, sludging, torrential wash). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ๆณฅๆต. (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ใใใ"ใงใใใ ใ (volcanic mudflow). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | udflowmay.(various references) | |
Spanish | lava torrencial (mudrock, mudrock flow, torrential wash). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "MUDFLOW": mudflows. (additional references) | |
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"MUDFLOW" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Medlow, Metaflow, midfoot, mouflon. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "d-f-l-m-o-u-w" | |
-2 letters: mould, woful, would. | |
-3 letters: doum, flow, fold, foul, fowl, loud, mold, wold, wolf. | |
-4 letters: dol, dom, dow, duo, flu, fou, fud, low, lum, mod, mol, mow, mud, old, oud, owl, udo, wud. | |
-5 letters: do, lo, mo, mu, od, of, om, ow, um, wo. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-f-l-m-o-u-w" | |
+1 letter: mudflows. | |
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