cabbaling
cabbaling is the alternative spelling of cabbeling.
Meaning of cabbeling
Noun
cabbeling (uncountable)
- The process by which two masses of water with different temperatures and salinities mix to form a new water mass with a density higher than the density of either parent water mass; also, the sinking of the new water mass as the effect of its increased density.
- He reasoned that cabbeling would form a front at the juxtaposition of Warm Deep Water and Shelf Water. Sinking along such a front would thus inhibit the cross shelf flow of shelf water.1934, Thomas North Whitehead, The Design and Use of Instruments and Accurate Mechanisms: Underlying Principles, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan Co., →OCLC, page 684
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- What is cabbaling the alternative spelling of?
- Cabbaling is the alternative spelling of cabbeling.
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