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Definition: Subsidence |
SubsidenceNoun1. An abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission". 2. A gradual sinking to a lower level. 3. The sudden collapse of something into a hollow beneath it. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "subsidence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1831. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Building & Civil Engineering | Downward movement of soil or an embankment independent of mechanical compaction:a downward movement of the soil or of the structure which it supports after completion of the road. Source: European Union. (references) |
| A sudden slip, cave-in or collapse of the streambank(slumping)or lowering of land surface(subsidence). Source: European Union. (references) | |
Electrical Engineering | A sinking of a large part of the earth's crust relative to its surrounding parts, such as the formation of a rift valley or the lowering of a coast due to tectonic movements. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Compaction involves the close-packing of the individual grains mainly by the elimination of pore-space and expulsion of entrapped water; this is normally brought about by the weight of t he overlying sediments. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Geography | Slow descent of a mass of air, over a wide area, generally accompanied by horizontal divergence in the lower layers. The subsiding air is compressed and warmed and its initial stability is generally increased. Source: European Union. (references) |
| The lowering of the strata, including the surface, due to underground excavations. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Hydrologic | A dropping of the land surface as a result of ground water being pumped. Cracks and fissures can appear in the land. Subsidence is virtually an irreversible process. (references) |
| Sinking down of part of the earth's crust due to underground excavation, such as the removal of groundwater. (references) | |
Mining | The sudden sinking or gradual downward settling of the Earth's surface with little or no horizontal motion. The movement is not restricted in rate, magnitude, or area involved. Subsidence may be caused by natural geologic processes, such as solution, thawing, compaction, slow crustal warping, or withdrawal of fluid lava from beneath a solid crust; or by human activity, such as subsurface mining or the pumping of oil or groundwater. See also:shift; cauldron subsidence; settlement.Syn:land subsidence; bottom subsidence. (references) |
Science | In weather forecasting terminology, this term refers to sinking motions of air masses. It could also refer to sinking motions within fluids or bodies of water. (references) |
Weather | Sinking (downward) motion in the atmosphere, usually over a broad area. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
There are three main types of subsidence, listed below in order of increasing scale:
This commonly occurs over man-made voids, such as tunnels, wells and covered quarries. It is also frequent in karst terrains, where dissolution of limestone by fluid flow in the subsurface causes the creation of voids (i.e. caves). If the roof of these voids becomes too weak, it can collapse and the overlying rock and earth will fall into the space, causing subsidence at the surface. This type of subsidence can result in sinkholes which can be many hundreds of metres deep and can provide areas of ecological isolation which see the evolution of new branches of animal and plant.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Subsidence."
Synonyms: SubsidenceSynonyms: cave in (n), remission (n), remittal (n), settling (n), subsiding (n). (additional references) |
| Synonym by domain: slumping (building & civil engineering, geography). |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Descent | Noun: descent, descension, declension, declination; fall; falling; Verb:: slump; drop, plunge, plummet, cadence; subsidence, collapse, lapse; downfall, tumble, slip, tilt, trip, lurch; cropper, culbute; titubation, stumble; fate of Icarus. |
Nonincrease, Decrease | Subsidence, wane, ebb, decline; ebbing; descent; decrement, reflux, depreciation; deterioration; anticlimax; mitigation; (moderation). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Marsh land that has been converted to pasture by cutting canals, building levees , and pumping out water. Exposure to air caused oxidation of organic matter in soil which led to rapid subsidence. Credit: America's Coastlines. |  | Flooding of low-lying areas at Holland Cliffs Shores by extreme high tides. Land is being lost at a rate of 1" per year in the Chesapeake Bay region due to combination of sea level rise and subsidence caused by lowering water tables. As population grows, so does demand for fresh water causing further subsidence, making events such as this increasingly common. Credit: America's Coastlines. |
 | North of Livingood, Subsidence on the Hickel Highway. Credit: Alaska Historical Image Library. | ||
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| "Subsidence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.91% of the time. "Subsidence" is used about 269 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) | 95.91% | 258 | 18,412 |
| Noun (proper) | 4.09% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Total | 100.00% | 269 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
subsidence | 20 |
mine subsidence | 8 |
data map subsidence | 5 |
insurance mine subsidence | 4 |
ground subsidence | 3 |
subsidence venice | 2 |
subsidence advice | 2 |
land subsidence | 2 |
canada data map subsidence | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "subsidence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vithisje, rrëshqitje (coast, glide, gliding, glissade, skid, slide, sliding, slip, slipping), fundosje (sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | همود (dormancy, extinction, inaction, inertia, inertness), هبوط (decline, descent, down, drop, falling, grounding, landing, letdown, slip, trough), تغور, تسيخ, خمود (abatement, extinction, inaction, lull), إستقرار (constancy, fastness, firmness, fixity, settlement, stability, stabilization, steadiness), إستراحة (break, breather, lounge, repose, rest, silence, standoff, stoppage), رسوب (sediment, sludge). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стихване (abatement), утаяване (precipitation, sedimentation, settling), спадане (decrease, decrement, deflation, falling, run down, slip, wane), потъване (immersion, sinking, submergence, submersion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 沉淀 (Precipitated, Precipitating, sedimentary). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | sedání, propadání, pokles (decline, decrease, depression, diminution, dip, drop, fall, sag). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | subsidens, sammensynkning (settlement, sinking), sammenbrud (breakdown, break-up, collapse, crash, crushing, failure, settlement, sinking, trouble), sætning af terræn (settlement, sinking), sætning (sentence), sænkning (deepening, depressed area, depression, sunken joint), terrænsænkning (bottom subsidence), niveausænkning, nedsynkning (blood sedimentation test, descensus, descent, ptosis, sagged, sagging, sunken-in), landsænkning nedsynkning, konsolidering (compression, consolidation, funding, settlement), kompaktion (compaction, settling), indsynkning, forsænkning, afklingen (ceasing). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | subsidentie, samenpakking (compaction, settling), zetting (abbreviation, accommodation, adjustment, arrangement, assemblage, assembly, composing, erecting, fitting up, mounting), voor uitgaan (ceasing), verzakking (herniation, prolapsus, settlement, settling, sinking, structure depression, subsiding area), verzakken (descend, go down), verbeteren (adjust, correct, improve, perfect), uitklinken (ceasing), inzakking,verzakking, inklinking (consolidation, settlement), daling (landing), compactie (compacting, compaction, compression, settling), bodemverzakking (bottom subsidence), bodemdaling. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | subsidenssi, vajoaminen (cascading, down welling, downwelling, sinking), vajoama (depressed area, depression, slumping), tiivistyminen (compaction, compression, condensation, consolidation, infiltration of tumor cells, infiltration of tumour cells, settling, sweating, tumor infiltration, tumour infiltration), painuma (depression), maanpinnan vajoaminen, laaja-alainen laskeva virtaus, kompaktio (compaction, settling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | affaissement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | senkung (counterbore, decline, decrease, dip, drop, fall, hollow, lowering, reduction, sag, sagging, settlement, sinking, valley). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατάπτωση (decadence, decadency, depression, prostration, sag, slump). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שקיע" (absorption, decadence, decline, degeneration, sag, sedimentation, settlement, sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lerakódás (alluvium, bed, crust, foot, lodgement, lodgment, sediment, sedimentation, settlings, sludge), ülepedés (convergence, sedimentation, settlement), süppedés (settlement, settlement of subgrade, settling, sinking, underlay, yield), megereszkedés (relaxation, sag, slack, yield), lesüppedés, lelohadás (delitescence, delitescency), lecsendesedés (let-up), leülepedés (setting, settling), csökkenés (abatement, attenuation, decline, decrease, diminution, droop, easement, go down, lessening, letdown, loss, reduce, reduction, remission, shrinkage, shrinking, waste). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | amblesan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | cedimento (backdown, yielding), avvallamento (dip, sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 沈下 (sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | か"う (aged 61, chemical engineering, crater, delicacy, descending, descent, downward, drop, estuary, fall, firelight, flower stalk, fragrance of flowers, good-eating fish, manufacturing, manuscript of poem, mouth of river, peduncle, processing, rare treat, river port, to enclose, treatment), か"ぼつ (cave-in), ち"か (extinguished, sinking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | tuittym (abate, befall, cadence, cadence of voice, calming, collapse, come off, crumple, decline, depreciate; abatement, depreciation, descend, die down, droop, drop fall, fall off, fall out, fall over, falling, falter, flounder, floundering, founder, go down, incidence, keel over, lapse, overbalance, sag, slump, subside, tip over, topple, tumble, waver, waver of courage, wavering), traih (abate, abatement, decrement, diminish, efflux, flow away, flow out, go down, go off, low water, make, make of ebb, ooze away, sink, subside). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ubsidencesay assentamento (entry, record, registration), abaixamento (decline, depression, down-grade, fade-out, sinking). (various references) падение (come down, come-down, decline, descent, down, downfall, drop, fall, falling, incidence, lapse, letdown, pitch, recession, tumble). (various references) sleganje, talog (draff, dreg, grout, lees, precipitate, residue, sediment), taloženje (alluvion, precipitation, settling), opadanje (decline, decrease, decrement, downtrend, ebb, fall out, falling, fallout, loss, wane, waning). (various references) hundimiento (downfall, sag, sagging, sinking, submergence), apaciguamiento (appeasement, pacification). (various references) subsidens, sättning (composition, sag, settlement), sänkning (abatement, depression, droop, sinking), nedsänkning i markyta, konsolidering (compression, consolidation, settlement), kompaktion (compaction, settling), kollaps (collapse), jordskorpesänkning, insjunkning (sag). (various references) hafifleme (alleviation, becoming lighter, remission, slowing down), azalma (abatement, alleviation, attenuation, decline, decrease, decrement, degradation, diminution, drop, falling away, falling off, impairment, let up, letdown, reduce, reduction, remission, scale down, shortening, wane), alçalma (abasement, degradation, descent, humiliation, letdown, self abasement, stooping), çökme (collapse, crack up, decline, depression, dip, downfall, sag, slump). (various references) заспоко"ння (appeasement, assuagement, comfort, conciliation, mollification, propitiation, sedation, solace), падіння (bathos, come down, cracker, demission, downfall, drop, dropping, fall, falling, labefaction, tumble, upset). (various references) sự nguôi đi, sự giảm (discount, drawback, drop, subduction), sự bớt (discount, retrenchment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "subsidence": subsidences. (additional references) | |
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"Subsidence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: subsiden. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "subsidence" (pronounced subsī"duns) |
| 5 | -ī" d u n s | guidance. |
| 4 | -d u n s | abundance, accordance, ascendance, attendance, avoidance, cadence, coincidence, confidence, correspondence, credence, decadence, dependence, dissidence, evidence, impedance, imprudence, incidence, independence, interdependence, jurisprudence, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, precedence, Providence, prudence, residence, riddance, transcendence. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, acceptance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, assistance, assurance, audience, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, dalliance, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, importance, impotence, inadvertence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, province, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-n-s-s-u" | |
-2 letters: bedunces, censused. | |
-3 letters: beduins, bedunce, besides, diseuse, dueness, incudes, incused, incuses, induces, niduses, seduces, subside. | |
-4 letters: beduin, beside, busied, busies, bussed, cebids, censed, censes, census, cessed, cuisse, cussed, deices, denies, deuces, dienes, dieses, discus, disuse, dunces, ecesis, edenic, educes, endues, ensued, ensues, incuse, induce, indues, issued, nieces, nudies, scends, scenes, secund, seduce, seined. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-c-d-e-e-i-n-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sublicensed, subsidences. | |
+2 letters: disencumbers. | |
+3 letters: subacidnesses. | |
+5 letters: ribonucleosides. | |
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