Definition of Seiches. Meaning of Seiches. Synonyms of Seiches

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Definition of Seiches

Seiches
Seiches Seiches, n. pl. [F.] (Geol.) Local oscillations in level observed in the case of some lakes, as Lake Geneva.

Meaning of Seiches from wikipedia

- A seiche (/seɪʃ/ SAYSH) is a standing wave in an enclosed or partially enclosed body of water. Seiches and seiche-related phenomena have been observed...
- which is a tributary of the Vilaine seiche, a French term for a cuttlefish or bobtail squid. Seiches may refer to: Seiches-sur-le-Loir, a commune in the Maine-et-Loire...
- Earth, and any ambient motion in the receiving water, such as tides or seiches. If the river water has a higher density than the surface of the receiving...
- earthquake (seiches in Puerto Rico), the 1950 ****am-Tibet earthquake (India/China) (seiches in England and Norway), the 2010 Chile earthquake (seiches in Louisiana)...
- surface gravity waves and seiches. The presence of ice mélange slows down the propagation of both external and internal seiches and introduces band gaps...
- The Secchi disk (or Secchi disc), as created in 1865 by Angelo Secchi, is a plain white, circular disk 30 cm (12 in) in diameter used to measure water...
- transversal seiche has a period of around 10 minutes, while Lake Huron can be seen to have resonances with periods between 1 and 2 hours. See Lake seiches. Index...
- Trembles were felt across India, reaching as far as Ahmedabad and Peshawar. Seiches were also observed in Burma. The earthquake occurred on the south–southwest-dipping...
- Penzance (/pɛnˈzæns/ pen-ZANSS; Cornish: Pennsans) is a town, civil parish and port in the Penwith district of Cornwall, England, United Kingdom. It is...
- are too weak to cause observable seiches, but extremely m****ive earthquakes far away could cause large waves. The seiche created in Loch Ness by the catastrophic...