| 单词 | hanging wall |
| 释义 | hanging wallnounMining. the underside of the wall rock overlying a vein or bed of ore.Compare footwall (def. 1). Geology. a mass of rock overhanging a fault plane. Origin of hanging wallFirst recorded in 1770–80 Words nearby hanging wallhanging post, hanging scroll, hanging step, hanging stile, hanging valley, hanging wall, hang in the balance, hang it, hang loose, hangman, hangman's fracture Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for hanging wall
British Dictionary definitions for hanging wallhanging wall nounthe rocks on the upper side of an inclined fault plane or mineral veinCompare footwall Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Scientific definitions for hanging wallhanging wall The block of rock lying above an inclined geologic fault plane. See more at fault. Compare footwall. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |
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