Definition of Rifts. Meaning of Rifts. Synonyms of Rifts

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Definition of Rifts

Rift
Rift Rift, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Rifted; p. pr. & vb. n. Rifting.] To cleave; to rive; to split; as, to rift an oak or a rock; to rift the clouds. --Longfellow. To dwell these rifted rocks between. --Wordsworth.
Rift
Rift Rift, v. i. 1. To burst open; to split. --Shak. Timber . . . not apt to rif with ordnance. --Bacon. 2. To belch. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
Rift
Rift Rift, n. [Written also reft.] [Dan. rift, fr. rieve to rend. See Rive.] 1. An opening made by riving or splitting; a cleft; a fissure. --Spenser. 2. A shallow place in a stream; a ford.
Rift
Rift Rift, obs. p. p. of Rive. --Spenser.

Meaning of Rifts from wikipedia

- aulacogen. Most rifts consist of a series of separate segments that together form the linear zone characteristic of rifts. The individual rift segments have...
- Rift (album), a 1993 album by Phish "Rift", a song by Northlane from the 2019 album Alien Rifts (album), a 2009 album by Oneohtrix Point Never Rift,...
- other genres. Rifts serves as a cross-over environment for a variety of other Palladium games with different universes connected through "rifts" on Earth...
- Oculus Rift is a discontinued line of virtual reality headsets developed and manufactured by Oculus VR, a virtual reality company founded by Palmer Luckey...
- forming new plates. If they continue, continental rifts will eventually become oceanic rifts. Other rift valleys are the result of bends or discontinuities...
- activity towards the rifts. Today, the narrow rift segments of the East African Rift system form zones of localized strain. These rifts are the result of...
- A rift zone is a feature of some volcanoes, especially shield volcanoes, in which a set of linear cracks (or rifts) develops in a volcanic edifice, typically...
- describe the types of propagating rifts: The first set is based on the morphology of the growing segment of propagating rifts. Under this geometry model, two...
- A rift lake is a lake formed as a result of subsidence related to movement on faults within a rift zone, an area of extensional tectonics in the continental...
- and the Somali plate. Today these rifts and faults are seen as distinct, although connected. Originally, the Great Rift Valley was thought to be a single...