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DIASTROPHISM

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Dictionary entry overview: What does diastrophism mean?

• DIASTROPHISM (noun)
The noun DIASTROPHISM has 1 sense:

1. the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust

Familiarity information: DIASTROPHISM used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DIASTROPHISM (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("diastrophism" is a kind of...):

geologic process; geological process ((geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified)

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