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EXCEEDANCE
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I. (noun)
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
Example:
the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
