inwellingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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inwelling (複数形 inwellings)

1. The process of flowing inward and pooling.
   • 1929, Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey, Bulletin (page 116)

     The last stages of deformation were accompanied by, or followed by, the inwelling or injection of magmas along the Keweenaw thrust plane.

   • 1973, Zvi Ben-Avraham, ‎Kenneth Orris Emery, Structural Framework of the Sunda Shelf (page 164)

     A similar bottom inwelling occurs in the Northern Baltic (Hobro かつ Nyquist 1971).

   • 1980, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Characterization of the Sea Island Coastal Region of South Carolina and Georgia, page 32:

     Thus, there are three primary sources of nutrients and materials for the coastal marine ecosystem (Fig. 2-4): 1) inwelling of materials from oceanic waters bu current, wind, and wave action; 2) upwelling from deep ocean waters; and 3) outwelling from estuariene and terrestrial environments.

   • 1984, W. O'Reilly, Magnetism, Planetary Rotation, and Convection in the Solar System (page 368)

     Outwellings and inwellings will meet at the boundary layers.

   • 2020, David Klooz, The Eye of Ra: Robbers of the Sacred Stone, page 174:

     If you examine some of the planets and Sun in the Solar System you will see that 'energy inwelling's' seem to occur at either 19.5 degrees south or north of the equator.

2. A growing feeling or internal sensation that causes one to feel emotionally full.
   • 1890, Emma E. H. Specht, Alfrieda: A Novel, page 196:

     Like the prodigal son, "when he came to himself" when her long slumbering conscience awoke , and she felt the soft, gentle inwelling of a now thoroughly aroused soul, which made her realize a great-hearted, universal charity for erring humanity, there rose also a great pity in her heart for the lover of her youth, her long deserted, neglected husband.