Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A series of related rock formations.
- noun An area having a preponderance of a particular rock or rock groups.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
terrain .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geog.) A region or limited area considered with reference to some special feature.
- noun (Geol.) A group of rocks having a common age or origin; -- nearly equivalent to
formation , but used somewhat less comprehensively.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology A block of the
Earth 'scrust that differs from the surrounding material, and is separated from it byfaults .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Eastwards, a Permian terrane of greywacke sandstone becomes progressively more highly metamorphosed to become schist which forms the Southern Alps contained within Mount Aspiring National Park.
Te Wahipounamu (South-West New Zealand World Heritage Area), New Zealand 2008
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Birds of paradise, vicariance biogeography and terrane tectonics in New Guinea.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Rural Mexico has a lot in common with many other countries I have traveled in to climb mountains - rugged terrane, wide open spaces, dusty roads and poverty.
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Birds of paradise (Paradisaeidae) and bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchidae): regional levels of biodiversity and terrane tectonics in New Guinea.
Archive 2006-03-01 Darren Naish 2006
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Pham cycled the lock and pushed off, into the wormheads 'terrane.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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Pham was never sure why Rihndell had the Skroderiders pass through the wormheads 'terrane; maybe, if the creatures were the ultimate trellis users, they wanted a look at the sellers.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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As long as she kept her eyes on the darkening ground, Ravna could almost imagine this was someplace in her home terrane on Sjandra Kei.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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He ducked quickly around an aquarium as Ravna said, "The terrane just complained to your suit: 'You are in violation of dress-code' is how the translation comes out."
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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This secondary harbor was not really part of the tusk-leg race's terrane.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
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The move was even plausible, for it happened that there was a Skroderider terrane in the Harmonious Repose system -- and currently it was just a few hundred kilometers from Rihndell's second harbor.
A Fire Upon the Deep Vinge, Vernor 1992
knitandpurl commented on the word terrane
April 13, 2014