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Eolian

Eolian \E*o"li*an\, a. [See [AE]olian.]

  1. [AE]olian.

  2. (Geol.) Formed, or deposited, by the action of wind, as dunes.

    Eolian attachment, Eolian harp. See [AE]olian.

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eolian

see Aeolian.

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eolian

a. (alternative spelling of aeolian English)

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Eolian (Solar car)

Eolian is the name of a series of solar vehicles designed and manufactured by students, workers and professors at the University of Chile. The project involves different disciplines, including mechanical engineers, electrical engineers and industrial designers.

Usage examples of "eolian".

Coyote remarked as they drove up a smooth slope of eolian deposit, over another rim pass and out of the crater.

The floor had been desiccated by the original impact, and now it consisted of about a kilometer's depth of eolian sediment, underlain by a hard cake of brecciated rock, formed during the brief but stupendous pressures of the impact.

The floor had been desiccated by the original impact, and now it consisted of about a kilometer’s depth of eolian sediment, underlain by a hard cake of brecciated rock, formed during the brief but stupendous pressures of the impact.

Today with much-reduced eolian erosion as a result of the greening of Arrakis, and with little in the waj of water erosion, mountains are rising rapidly (rapidly m a geological time sense).