incavation

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim The act of making hollow.

   “Thus it was urged that since a glacier can be shown to have produced a number of mountain tarns, there is no reason why in sufficient time it should not accomplish the incavation of a lake or an inland sea, such as Lake Geneva, or Superior, or the Caspian.”

2. isim The act of caving in.

   “A case or curb to be used to prevent incavation in sinking wells and boring into loose ground”

3. isim A hollow; a physical depression; a concavity.

   “This lip is in fact not a separate part of the pipe, but merely an incavation on the foot, having at its lower end the form of a tongue, as we see on fig. 1.-4”

4. isim An act of earthing artifacts; the burial or entombment of archaeologically interesting items.

   “Instead, what is incavated is archaeological evidence in itself, and incavations are thus about the very possibility of archaeology.”