Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

boudinage

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: boud-i-nage
IPA

13

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

3

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Synonym of boudin (“a sausage-shaped structure formed by this process”).

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Extreme attenuation and extensive chocolate-tablet boudinage of the plutonic complex that forms the uppermost Valley Spring domain occurred as the result of shortening perpendicular to S2 and extension parallel to it."
"The shaly host is usually elongate, lensoid, xenolith-like boudinages in the phyllitic country rocks. The boudinages are mostly rounded to oval, though elongate tongue like shapes are also common, and are characterized by […]"

Etymology

From French boudinage. By surface analysis, boudin + -age.

Origin

Source language: French

Word Breakdown

Root: boudinage

Usage

Inflected Forms

boudinages (plural)

Derived Forms

boudinaged

Synonyms

boudin

Questions

What does boudinage mean?: A process in which a more competent layer is broken into sausage-shaped pieces as less competent layers surrounding it are deformed.
Where does boudinage come from?: It is traced to French.

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