Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A geologic structure in which all layers are inclined in the same direction.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
monoclinal .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Geol.) A monoclinal fold.
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- noun geology A
unidirectional dip instrata that is not a part of ananticline orsyncline - noun geology A single
flexure in otherwise flat-lyingstrata
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a geological formation in which all strata are inclined in the same direction
Etymologies
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Examples
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The simplest type of fold is called a monocline (Figure 2).
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Analysts at Mediobanca have estimated that Deutsche Bank has risk exposures of 150.7% of tangible equity, and it has a high exposure to commercial mortgages and monocline insurers, or insurers that provide guarantees to issuers of bonds, including mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt.
Deutsche Profit Warning Raises Capital Worries Laura Stevens 2011
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This monocline is easily accessible via two methods: road and river!
Rattlesnake Monocline ReBecca Foster 2009
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This monocline is easily accessible via two methods: road and river!
Archive 2009-03-01 ReBecca Foster 2009
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HSBC HSBC Holding PLC said on March 3 that it made a total of $2.1 billion in write-downs on asset-backed securities and credit-trading positions, leveraged - and acquisition-financing positions, and monocline-credit exposures.
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If you look closely, you can see a fold or monocline concealed partly by snow.
Mylonitic Quartzite Silver Fox 2008
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The boy's corpse becomes the foundation for Burringurrah, an enormous red monocline in western Australia.
Archive 2008-09-01 2008
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The boy's corpse becomes the foundation for Burringurrah, an enormous red monocline in western Australia.
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About three or four miles west of this junction the river enters the east slope of the east Kaibab monocline, and here the
Our Italy Charles Dudley Warner 1864
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If you are a bank or regulated entity, and you have mortgage-backed securities that have been written by a AAA monocline company, you can carry that debt on your books as AAA.
Agitprop: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Propaganda 2009
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