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epicentre

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the point on the Earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake [syn: epicenter ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context seismology English) The point on the land or water surface directly above the focus, or hypocentre, of an earthquake. 2 (context military English) The point on the surface of the earth directly above an underground explosion. 3 (context figuratively ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
chiefly British English spelling of epicenter ; for spelling, see -re .

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A star marks the epicentre of the atomic bomb dropped in 1945. ▪ Its epicentre was in the sea 19 miles from the town of Maumere, with its 70,000 inhabitants. ▪ The epicentre of the nation's in decision encompasses a group of ...

Usage examples of epicentre.

He saw that the epicentre of Aberrancy always lay at the site of a Weaver monastery, and the monasteries were always built around the witchstones.

The epicentre, where the Lady Macbeth had plunged into the drive-fomented particles, was still glowing a nervous blue as brumal waves of static washed through the thinning molecular zephyr of vaporized rock and ice.

A pair of recovering Welsh bulimics had rented the house next to the plaza, the very seismic epicentre of the fiesta.

With New Manhattan at the epicentre, fifteen crystalline domes, twenty kilometres in diameter, were clumped together in a semicircle along the eastern seaboard, sheltering entire districts of ordinary skyscrapers (defined as buildings under one kilometre high) from the pummelling heat and winds.

A shiver of shared trepidation rippled out from the sinistrals, the five epicentres, crossed and made peculiar patterns in the psychosphere.

At the epicentre of this unearthliness squatted the village of Blaenau, itself a kind of slate slagheap, or so it seemed in the teeming rain.