English Explanatory Dictionary

stillstand

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A period of time during which the terminus of a glacier remains stationary.
  2. A period of geologic time during which eustatic sea level stays apparently constant, relative to adjacent periods of geologic time, neither characterized by transgression, nor regression.
  3. A standstill.
verb
  1. To cease in either glacial advance or retreat.

Word forms

stillstand stillstands stillstanding stillstanded

Etymology

From still + stand.

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