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单词 rheocline
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rheocline
rheocline n.
Brit. /ˈriːə(ʊ)klʌɪn/
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U.S. /ˈriəˌklaɪn/
[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.
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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.
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