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ROCK FAILURE

Specialty Definition: ROCK FAILURE

DomainDefinition

Geography

Fracture or rupture of a rock or other material that has been stressed beyond its ultimate strength. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

Fracture or failure of a rock that has been stressed beyond its ultimatestrength. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ROCK FAILURE

Specialty definitions using "ROCK FAILURE": Drucker-Prager criterionmicroseismic instrument, Mohr-Coulomb criterionV-arching. (references)

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Modern Translation: ROCK FAILURE

Language Translations for "ROCK FAILURE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

sammenstyrtning (collapse, failure, sinking), jordfaldshul (collapse sinkhole, dolina, doline, failure, leach hole, shakehole, sink, sinkhole, solution sinkhole, sotch). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

instorting (collapsing, failure, herniation, prolapsus). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

sortuma (failure), luhistuma (failure). (various references)

   

French

  

effondrement. (various references)

   

German

  

Gesteinseinsturz (failure), Felsverbruch (failure), Felseinsturz (failure). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

εγκατακρήμνιση (failure). (various references)

   

Italian

  

rottura di roccia (failure), crollo di roccia (failure). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ockray ailurefay

   

Portuguese

  

fractura (fracture). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

kollaps (collapse). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ROCK FAILURE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-i-k-l-o-r-r-u"

-3 letters: carriole, croakier, firelock, flockier.

-4 letters: auricle, calorie, careful, cariole, caroler, caulker, coalier, corkier, coruler, courier, croaker, curlier, earlock, failure, farceur, fickler, flakier, flicker, flueric, flukier, fluoric, forkier, frailer, larkier, loricae, lucifer, luckier, oarlike, rackful, rockier.

-5 letters: aculei, cakier, calker, carful, caroli, carrel, coaler, coiler, colure, corker, corral, corrie, crural, curare, curari, curiae, curial.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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