pedalities
pedalities is the plural of pedality.
Meaning of pedality
Noun (1)
pedality (countable and uncountable, plural pedalities)
- The physical structure of a soil, especially in the context of its constituent peds.
- Following the ideas of the Soil Survey Manual (Soil Survey Staff, 1951), Bullock et al. (1985) recommended to describe the grade of pedality as part of the description of microstructure. Bullock et al. (1985) and FitzPatrick (1984) based for micromorphological descriptions their grading on the only...2002, G. Stoops, “Proposal for redefining and extension of concepts and terminology of the ISSS “handbook on soil thin section description"”, in WCSS (Symposium no. 36)
Noun (2)
pedality (countable and uncountable, plural pedalities)
- The anatomical formation of the foot and surrounding region.
- Cloven-footednesse includes pedality.1656, Thomas White, Peripateticall institutions.
- Something that is associated with the foot, such as the way it is used (for locomotion or measurement) or the articles of clothing worn on it.
- I was followed by my noble hostess (womewhat more, be it understood, than a middle-aged lady), who gravely sate down, and, bidding me take off my cravat, like Thomson's Musidora—"...from her leg the inverted worsted drew"— pinned it scientifically round my throat, with the comfortable assurance...1863, Notes and Queries, page 479
Questions about pedalities
- What is pedalities the plural of?
- Pedalities is the plural of pedality.
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