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Definition: Aftershock |
AftershockNoun1. A tremor (or one of a series of tremors) occurring after the main shock of an earthquake. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Geological | An earthquake which follows a larger earthquake or main shock and originates in or near the rupture zone of the larger earthquake. Generally, major earthquakes are followed by a larger number of aftershocks, decreasing in frequency with time. (references) |
Mining | An earthquake that follows a larger earthquake or main shock and originates at or near the focus of the larger earthquake. Generally, major earthquakes are followed by many aftershocks, which decrease in frequency and magnitude with time. Such a series of aftershocks may last many days for small earthquakes or many months for large ones. CF:foreshock. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Aftershock (2001) | |
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| "Aftershock" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aftershock" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 3 | 202,518 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "aftershock"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Dutch | naschok. (various references) | |
French | secousse consécutive, réplique. (various references) | |
German | Nachbeben. (various references) | |
Greek | μετασεισμός. (various references) | |
Hungarian | utórezgés (backwash), utólökés. (various references) | |
Italian | scossa successiva alla principale, scossa di replica, replica (answer, recurrence, reiterativeness, repeat, repetition, replica, reply, re-run, retort, riposte, rollback). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 揺り"し (afterquake), 余震 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ゆりかえし (afterquake), よし" (credit limit, preliminary examination, preliminary tremor, pretrial hearing). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aftershockay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | réplica (answer, comeuppance, flash, objection, rebuttal, rejoinder, repartee, replica, replication, reply, response, retort, snipsnap). (various references) | |
Russian | толчок после основного землетрясения. (various references) | |
Spanish | temblor secundario, sismo secundario. (various references) | |
Swedish | efterskalv. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aftershock": aftershocks. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aftershock" (pronounced a"ftershÄ'k) |
| 3 | -sh Ä' k | electroshock. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-f-h-k-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: rockshaft, shortcake. | |
-2 letters: forecast, hotcakes, thoraces. | |
-3 letters: chafers, chaster, chokers, choreas, coaster, coaters, earshot, factors, fathers, forsake, hackers, hafters, hectors, hockers, hotcake, oraches, rachets, rackets, ratches, restack, restock, retacks, roaches, rochets, rockets, rotches, shocker, stacker, stocker, tackers, tochers, torches, troches. | |
-4 letters: actors, afresh, afters, ahorse, arches, arkose, ashore, carets, cartes, casket, caster, castor, caters. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-f-h-k-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: aftershocks. | |
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