| Webster's Online Dictionary |
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| Fall line | The fall line has meanings in both geographical features and the sport of alpine skiing. (references) | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Fall line | Mining | An imaginary line or narrow zone connecting the waterfalls on several adjacent near-parallel rivers, marking the points where these rivers make a sudden descent from an upland to a lowland, as at the edge of a plateau; specif.the fall line marking the boundary between the ancient, resistant crystalline rocks of the Piedmont Plateau and the younger, softer sediments of the Atlantic Coastal Plain in the Eastern United States. It also marks the limit of navigability of the rivers. Syn: fall zone. (references) | |
| Fall line | Water | 1: The geographical line east of the Appalachian Mountains, marking the end of the coastal plains and the beginning of the Piedmont Plateau. (references) | |
| 2: Imaginary line marking the boundary between the ancient, resistant crystalline rocks of the Piedmont province of the Appalachian Mountains, and the younger, softer sediments of the Atlantic Coastal Plain province in the Eastern United States. Along rivers, this line commonly is reflected by waterfalls. (references) | |||
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Topics by Level of Interest: FALL LINE | ||||
| Topics sorted by level of Interest | Level (1=low, 600=high) | Topics sorted Alphabetically | Level (1=low, 600=high) | |
| Fall line | 10 | Fall line | 10 | |
| Fall Line Freeway | 7 | Fall line (skiing) | 2 | |
| Fall Line Studios | 3 | Fall Line Cities | 3 | |
| Fall Line Cities | 3 | Fall Line Freeway | 7 | |
| Fall line (skiing) | 2 | Fall Line Studios | 3 | |
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses). | ||||
