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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Inclined outward in all directions from a central point or area: used chiefly in geology, as in the phrase quaquaversal dip, a dipping in all directions from a central area.
  2. n. A ridge between two adjoining watersheds which is worn down so that the basins connect and become the common origin of two systems of rivers. Usually this arrangement can be only temporary, and one river soon absorbs the entire drainage.
  3. n. In physical geography, a domed structure with the strata dipping away in all directions from a center.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. going off in all directions at once towards a center
  2. adj. dipping towards a centre in all directions

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Turning or dipping in any or every direction.
  2. adj. Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.

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  • whichbe Turning or dipping in any or all directions. Or going off in all directions at once. May 11, 2008

  • fbharjo quaquaversal its all downhill Jan 14, 2007

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