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planetquake

noun

Etymology

From planet + quake, after the pattern of earthquake.

  1. inherited from *kwakōną✻ — “to shake, quiver, tremble”
  2. inherited from cwacian — “to quake, tremble, chatter”
  3. inherited from quaken
  4. compounded as planetquake — “planet + quake”

Definitions

  1. A seismic event occurring on a planet (especially one other than Earth).

    • There are devices that can determine the distribution of radioactivity over another planet from orbit; that can feel from the surface the faint rumble of a distant planetquake deep below; […]
    • Recurrent planetquakes would have made mining too hazardous, which could account for the Romulans' departure, but so could many things on this inhospitable world.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for planetquake. 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