Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fall line

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.97 in modern English

Syllables
fal-l -line
IPA
11
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A geomorphologic unconformity marking a boundary between an upland region and a plane; sometimes marked by a series of waterfalls on rivers that cross it.

noun

The imaginary line downhill that something falling downhill would naturally follow.

Inflected Forms

fall lines (plural)

Questions

What does fall line mean?
A geomorphologic unconformity marking a boundary between an upland region and a plane; sometimes marked by a series of waterfalls on rivers that cross it.

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