quaquaversal

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  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. 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. In physical geography, a domed structure with the strata dipping away in all directions from a center.

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  • I'm having a simultaneity breakdown!” Without understanding for an instant what that person was talking about, I believe I know exactly how he or she must have felt.10 Permitted, or compelled, to read only more or less at random, other visitors also mention the impossibility of syncretism, one going so far as to describe the graffiti as quaquaversal, a term in geology meaning “directed from a common center toward all points of the compass or turning and dipping in all directions. —  FSFOct/Nov2004
 

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  1. from New Latin quaquaversus, from Latin quaqua, wheresoever, ablative feminine singular of quisquis, whoever, whatever (from quis, who, + quis, who), + versus, past participle of vertere, turn, incline (see verse), + -al.
 

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