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| Domain | Definition |
Geological | The first recorded signal attributed to seismic wave travel from a source. (references) |
Mining | The first energy to arrive from a seismic source. First arrivals on reflection records are used for information about a surficial low-velocity or weathering layer; refraction studies are often based on first arrivals.Syn:initial impulse; first break. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: FIRST ARRIVAL |
| Specialty definitions using "FIRST ARRIVAL": counter model,type I, counter model,type II ♦ later arrival ♦ observationeel onderzoek ♦ possessio pedis. (references) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For I have already told the reader how much I was pestered by those odious animals upon my first arrival. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Economic History | Jamaica | Arawaks from South America had settled in Jamaica prior to Christopher Columbus' first arrival to the island in 1494. During Spain's occupation of the island, starting in 1510, the Arawaks were exterminated by disease, slavery, and war. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "FIRST ARRIVAL"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Japanese Kanji | 先着 , 一着 (first in race, suit of clothes). (various references) | ||||
Japanese Katakana | せ"ちゃく, いっちゃく (first in race, suit of clothes). (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | irstfay arrivalay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-f-i-i-l-r-r-r-s-t-v" | |
-4 letters: airlifts, arrivals, aviarist, travails. | |
-5 letters: airlift, arrival, filaria, lariats, latrias, travail, trivial. | |
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