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EXCEEDANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does exceedance mean? 

EXCEEDANCE (noun)
  The noun EXCEEDANCE has 1 sense:

1. (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure timeplay

  Familiarity information: EXCEEDANCE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXCEEDANCE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling

Hypernyms ("exceedance" is a kind of...):

chance; probability (a measure of how likely it is that some event will occur; a number expressing the ratio of favorable cases to the whole number of cases possible)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Derivation:

exceed (be superior or better than some standard)


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