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baer-babinet law

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
baer-babi-net law
IPA
23
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A law describing how the river formation is influenced by the Earth's rotation: erosion occurs mostly on the right banks of rivers in the Northern Hemisphere and the left banks of rivers in the Southern Hemisphere.

Etymology

The concept was introduced by Jacques Babinet in 1859, and further explained in 1860 by Karl Ernst von Baer.

Inflected Forms

the Baer-Babinet law (canonical)

Synonyms

Baer's law

Questions

What does baer-babinet law mean?
A law describing how the river formation is influenced by the Earth's rotation: erosion occurs mostly on the right banks of rivers in the Northern Hemisphere and the left banks of rivers in the Southern Hemisphere.
Where does baer-babinet law come from?
The concept was introduced by Jacques Babinet in 1859, and further explained in 1860 by Karl Ernst von Baer.

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