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ISLAND ARC

Specialty Definition: ISLAND ARC

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Geography

Generally curve linear belt of volcanoes above a subduction zone, and the volcanic and plutonic rocks formed there. Source: European Union. (references)

Geological

An arc-shaped chain of volcanic islands produced where an oceanic plate is sinking (subducting) beneath another. (references)

Mining

A group of islands having a curving, arclike pattern. Most island arcs lie near the continental masses, but inasmuch as they rise from the deep oceanfloors, they are not a part of the continents proper. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Crosswords: ISLAND ARC

Specialty definitions using "ISLAND ARC": fore deep, foredeep, foretrough. (references)

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Commercial Usage: ISLAND ARC

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Periodicals

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: ISLAND ARC

Language Translations for "ISLAND ARC"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Danish

  

oebue. (various references)

   

Dutch

  

eilandenboog (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

saariketju, saarikaari (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc), kaarimainen saariketju. (various references)

   

French

  

guirlande insulaire, arc insulaire (island chain). (various references)

   

German

  

Inselkette (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc), Inselbogen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

νησιωτικό τόξο (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc). (various references)

   

Italian

  

ghirlanda insulare, arco insulare (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

islanday arcay

   

Portuguese

  

arco vulcânico (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

guirnalda insular, guirlanda insular, arco insular (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bågformig kedja av vulkaniska öar utmed gränsen mellan två kolliderande oceaniska litosfärplattor, öbåge (island chain, magmatic arc, volcanic arc). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: ISLAND ARC

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: cardinals.

Words within the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-n-r-s"

-1 letter: cardinal, laniards, radicals.

-2 letters: acarids, acrasin, aldrins, arnicas, ascarid, canards, cardias, carinal, carinas, carlins, cranial, laniard, nadiral, radials, radians, radical, scandal, scandia.

-3 letters: acarid, acinar, alands, alcids, aldrin, arnica, cairds, cairns, canals, canard, canids, cardia, carina, carlin, carnal, craals, crania, dalasi, darics, dinars, drails, drains, island, lairds, lanais, lascar, lianas, liards, lidars, linacs.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-d-i-l-n-r-s"
 

+2 letters: radicalness.

 

+3 letters: cardinalates, cardinalship, declarations, radicalising, sardonically.

 

+4 letters: cardinalities, cardinalships, desacralizing, radicalnesses, relandscaping, ultradistance.

 

+5 letters: achondroplasia, antiradicalism, clairaudiences, disciplinarian, subarachnoidal, transductional, ultradistances, valedictorians.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Crosswords
2. Usage: Commercial
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams
5. Bibliography


  

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