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SHEAR ZONE

Specialty Definition: SHEAR ZONE

DomainDefinition

Mining

A zone of rock fracturing consisting of many closely spaced, roughly parallel discontinuous cracks. Source: European Union. (references)
 A. A tabular zone of rock that has been crushed and brecciated by many parallel fractures due to shear strain. Such an area is often mineralized by ore-forming solutions. Syn:sheeted zone; sheeted-zone deposit. (references)

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

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Crosswords: SHEAR ZONE

Specialty definitions using "SHEAR ZONE": discontinuous chipfault strikemultilock lodeplane shearsegmental chip. (references)

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Modern Translation: SHEAR ZONE

Language Translations for "SHEAR ZONE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Greek 

  

διάτμηση (shear, shearing). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

earshay onezay

   

Spanish

  

deslizamiento (glide, glissade). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: SHEAR ZONE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-e-h-n-o-r-s-z"

-2 letters: arenose, hoarsen, reshone, rezones, senhora.

-3 letters: ahorse, arseno, ashore, haeres, hazers, hearse, hereon, heroes, herons, hoarse, honers, nosher, ranees, razees, reason, reshoe, rezone, senhor, senora, shoran, zeroes, zoners.

-4 letters: aeons, arose, arson, ashen, azons, earns, erase, ernes, erose, hanse, hares, hazer, hazes, hears, heres, herns, heron, heros, hoars, hoers, honer, hones, horas, horns.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-e-h-n-o-r-s-z"
 

+4 letters: etherizations.

 

+5 letters: trapezohedrons.

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

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