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basculations

basculations is the plural of basculation.

Meaning of basculation

Noun (1)

basculation (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The replacement of a retroverted uterus by swinging it into its place.
    • This twofold movement upon the centre, - this basculation, - has succeeded in cases where the elevation, singly, has been unsuccessful.1834, Gillain Boivin, A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Uterus and Its Appendages

Noun (2)

basculation (plural basculations)

  1. The tilting of a geological layer.
    • And during the Middle and Upper Carboniferous the basculation of the palaeozoic deposits was produced forming nowadays a monoclinal system in the northern border of the Tinduf depression […]1959, Notes on the Geological Literature of Spanish Sahara

Questions about basculations

What is basculations the plural of?
Basculations is the plural of basculation.

Words near basculations in the dictionary

  1. basculate
  2. basculated
  3. basculates
  4. basculating
  5. basculation
  6. basculations
  7. bascule
  8. bascule bridge
  9. bascule bridges
  10. bascules
  11. Basden

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