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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 time
Familiarity information: EXCEEDANCE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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