单词 | rheocline |
释义 | > as lemmasrheocline rheocline n. Brit. , U.S. [in sense (a) < rheo- comb. form + ancient Greek κλίνη couch (see -cline comb. form); in sense (b) < rheo- comb. form + -cline comb. form] †(a) a form of bed with an inflatable mattress (obsolete); (b) Ecology a layer in a body of moving water, across which there is a significant velocity gradient.ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > air-bed wind-bed1575 air bed1809 air mattress1834 rheocline1851 Li-Lo1936 1851 W. A. Guy Hooper's Physician's Vade-Mecum (new ed.) 315 The water-bed or the rheiocline, should be resorted to in the more severe class of cases. 1859 F. Nightingale Notes on Nursing viii. 46 An iron bedstead, with rheocline springs, which are permeable by the air up to the very mattress. 1968 F. R. H. Jones Fish Migration x. 194 In open water velocity changes take place across thermal or salinity discontinuities, and I propose the use of the term rheocline..to describe this phenomena [sic]. 2004 B. G. Kapoor & B. Khanna Ichthyol. Handbk. xxi. 911 It is not clear if fish make use of the directional information likely to be available across the rheocline. < as lemmas |
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