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archaeointensity

noun

Etymology

From archaeo- + intensity.

  1. derived from *tend-✻ — “to extend, stretch”
  2. derived from intēnsus — “strained, stretched tight; intense; attentive; violent; (rare) eager, intent”
  3. derived from intense
  4. inherited from intens
  5. formed as intensity — “intense + -ity”
  6. prefixed as archaeointensity — “archaeo + intensity”

Definitions

  1. The intensity of the Earth's magnetic field at some time in the distant past.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for archaeointensity. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA