trepidatory

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat That trepidates, or that causes trepidations.

   “Unfortunately, like Guthrie he has never given a formal statement of his principles, and it is therefore up to the reader to ferret out these things for himself — always a trepidatory procedure.”

2. sıfat Of an earthquake, having a vertical, up-and-down motion, as opposed to a horizontal, side-to-side motion.

   “This [earthquake] was felt at Mexico at precisely the same hour, lasting there about one minute and a half, the motion there being undulatory, but at Acapulco trepidatory.”