单词 | advect |
释义 | advectv. Chiefly Meteorology and Oceanography. transitive. To transport (heat, fluid, etc.) by advection. Also intransitive: to be transported by advection. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [verb (transitive)] > convey by large-scale movement advect1942 the world > matter > liquid > making or becoming liquid > make liquid [verb (transitive)] > convey by liquid advect1942 1942 V. A. Conrad Fund. Physical Climatol. 48 It is of greatest interest that the cold layer at the ground as well as the warm layer above are advected. 1957 G. E. Hutchinson Treat. Limnol. I. vii. 512 The sources of energy are the radiation from the sun..and sky.., the heat advected by influents, [etc.]. 1964 Oceanogr. & Marine Biol. 2 21 Those [sc. eddies] much larger would advect the rotating mass as a whole. 1976 Nature 24 June 679/2 Its local energy budget..must be balanced using energy advected from the surroundings. 1989 Nature 7 Dec. 675/1 Heated fluids that advect through sediments and rocky outcrops at certain locations on the lake floor. 2000 C. D. Whiteman Mountain Meteorol. v. 56 Small-scale waves or ripples..are superimposed on the Rossby waves and can be advected or transported through them at variable rates of speed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < v.1942 |
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