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单词 slumping
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slumpingn.2

/ˈslʌmpɪŋ/
Etymology: < slump v.2 + -ing suffix1.
Geomorphology.
The fall of soil, sediment, or the like in a slump (slump n.2 2b).
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > movement of material > [noun] > movement under gravity or water
land-rushc1550
slide1664
landslip1679
pitting1686
rockfall?1797
shoot1820
landslide1822
run1827
mountain slide1830
slip1838
slough1838
mudslide1848
founder1882
creep1889
soil-creep1897
rock creep1902
slump1905
solifluction1906
slumping1907
slopewash1938
sludging1946
mass wasting1951
1907 R. D. Salisbury Physiogr. vi. 106 Slumping is very common on slopes composed of unconsolidated material, such as clay or accumulations of loose rock.
1944 A. Holmes Princ. Physical Geol. x. 148 Similar conditions favour landslides on a bigger scale, wherever slumping (Fig. 63) or sliding (Fig. 64) can occur on the sides of undercut slopes, precipices, and cliffs.
1979 Geogr. Mag. July 668/3 Many sub-circular pans on the Essex marshes may be formed by the blocking-off by slumping and vegetation overgrowth of the large number of creek heads which appear rounded in outline.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

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ˈslumping
ˈslumping n.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [noun] > composite collectiveness > placing together as a mass or quantity
lumping1757
slumping1822
1822 W. J. Napier Pract. Store-farming 147 This ‘slumping’..will never serve to pay to the landlord that identical interest [etc.].
1850 Chambers's Jrnl. 23 Mar. 191/2 The slumping of the whole loss into the arbitrary..sum of five pounds.
1873 in L. Campbell & W. Garnett Life J. C. Maxwell (1882) 439 The slumping together of multitudes of cases.
extracted from slumpv.1
ˈslumping
ˈslumping adj.
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society > trade and finance > monetary value > price > fluctuation in price > [adjective] > declining in price > causing sudden decline
slumping1899
1899 Church Times 13 Oct. 421/1 The vicious operations of the slumping bear and the tossing bull.
extracted from slumpv.2
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