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timequake

noun

Etymology

From time + quake.

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

Definitions

  1. A disturbance in the flow of time.

    • Finding herself in the middle of a “timequake,” she discovers another world—an alternate universe. Will Mary find a way to return to the world she left?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for timequake. 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