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TSUNAMI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A cataclysm resulting from a destructive sea wave caused by an earthquake or volcanic eruption
Example:
a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("tsunami" is a kind of...):
calamity; cataclysm; catastrophe; disaster; tragedy (an event resulting in great loss and misfortune)
moving ridge; wave (one of a series of ridges that moves across the surface of a liquid (especially across a large body of water))
Context examples:
The tsunami wave rings the plasma like a bell.
(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)
Data from this newest tsunami wave generated by our sun confirm that Voyager is in interstellar space — a region between the stars filled with a thin soup of charged particles, also known as plasma.
(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)
In 2013, thanks to the second tsunami wave, the team acquired evidence that Voyager had been flying for more than a year through plasma that was 40 times denser than measured before — a telltale indicator of interstellar space.
(Sun sends more 'tsunami waves' to Voyager 1, NASA)
