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PRONUNCIATION OF HYPOCENTER

hypocenter  [ˈhaɪpəʊˌsentə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HYPOCENTER

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hypocenter is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HYPOCENTER MEAN IN ENGLISH?

hypocenter

Hypocenter

The hypocenter refers to the site of an earthquake or a nuclear explosion. In the former, it is a synonym of the focus; in the latter, of ground zero.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HYPOCENTER


cementer
sɪˈmentə
commentor
ˈkɒmentə
concenter
kɒnˈsentə
consenter
kənˈsentə
decenter
diːˈsentə
experimenter
ɪkˈspɛrɪmentə
fermentor
fəˈmentə
frequenter
frɪˈkwentə
indenter
ɪnˈdentə
indentor
ɪnˈdentə
indumenta
ɪndjʊˈmentə
metacenter
ˈmetəˌsentə
misenter
ˌmɪsˈentə
multicenter
ˌmʌltɪˈsentə
orthocenter
ˈɔːθəʊˌsentə
recenter
riːˈsentə
repenter
rɪˈpentə
revalenta
ˌrevəˈlentə
tormenter
tɔːˈmentə
unrelentor
ˌʌnrɪˈlentə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HYPOCENTER

hypocalcemia
hypocalcemic
hypocaust
hypocentral
hypocentre
hypochlorite
hypochlorous
hypochlorous acid
hypochondria
hypochondriac
hypochondriacal
hypochondriacally
hypochondriasis
hypochondriasm
hypochondriast
hypochondrium
hypocist
hypocorism
hypocorisma
hypocoristic

WORDS THAT END LIKE HYPOCENTER

absenter
augmenter
carpenter
center
childcare center
commenter
counter
Deventer
documenter
enter
epicenter
Lincoln Center
orienter
presenter
re-enter
renter
supercenter
tenter
trauma center
venter
World Trade Center

Synonyms and antonyms of hypocenter in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «hypocenter» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HYPOCENTER

Find out the translation of hypocenter to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hypocenter from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hypocenter» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

震源
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hipocentro
570 millions of speakers

English

hypocenter
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

hypocenter
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تحت مركز الانفجار النووي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эпицентр
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hipocentro
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভুমিকম্পের সূত্রপাতের স্থান
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hypocentre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Hypocenter
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Hypozentrum
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

爆心地
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

hypocenter
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hypocenter
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

hypocenter
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

ஹைப்போமையம்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

हायपोसेंटर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Odak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

ipocentro
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

hipocentrum
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

епіцентр
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

hypocenter
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

υποκέντρου
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

hypo sentrum
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

hypocenter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

hypocenter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hypocenter

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOCENTER»

The term «hypocenter» is regularly used and occupies the 94.149 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HYPOCENTER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hypocenter

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HYPOCENTER»

Discover the use of hypocenter in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hypocenter and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Tomographic Study of the Long Valley Caldera, California, ...
The first approach incorporates all the information available in the relative arrival time differences, but, some simplifying assumptions need to be made to determine the hypocenter locations. This gives relative, instead of absolute, hypocenter ...
Ilene Ellen Cooper, 2007
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International Handbook of Earthquake & Engineering Seismology
Hypocenter location program HYPOINVERSE. Open-File Report 78-694, US Geological Survey, Menlo Park, California, 113 pp. The current version is discussed in Chapter 85.8 by Klein. Lahr, J. C. (1979). HYPOELLIPSE: A computer program ...
William H.K. Lee, Hiroo Kanamori, Paul Jennings, 2003
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Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 2452
B-10 Earthquakes, Global Hypocenter: catalogue HDS-00: 1928-1988 (35.0-50.0 n, 50.0-80.0w) . B-ll Earthquakes, Global Hypocenter: catalogue HDS-C: 1928- 1988 (35.0-50.0 n, 50.0-80.0 w) . B-12 Earthquakes, Global Hypocenter: ...
Stevens, A E
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Acoustic Emission Testing
6.5.2 Joint Hypocenter Determination The relative localization method and joint hypocenter determination are both efficient ways to account for lateral velocity variations. However, in contrast to the relative localization method, the joint ...
Christian U. Grosse, Masayasu Ohtsu, 2008
5
Pro Spatial with SQL Server 2012
However, the origin of an earthquake (its hypocenter) normally lies deep within the earth, tens or hundreds of miles underground. In the eqs7day-MI dataset, the depth of the hypocenter, in kilometers, is recorded in the Depth column.
Alastair Aitchison, 2012
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United States Geological Survey Professional Paper
The focus or hypocenter of an earthquake is the point in the Earth's crust where fault rupture begins; the epicenter is the point on the Earth's surface directly above the 'Deceased. 1983. Information in this report is current to 1979; later illnes' ...
‎1984
7
Virtual and Mixed Reality
Visualization of hypocenter data using 4K stereo projection system. User can recognize both each hypocenter data and distribution of whole data. 5.1 Distribution of Hypocenter Data In Japan, since a lot of earthquakes occur every year, it is ...
Randall Shumaker, 2009
8
Principles and Applications of Microearthquake Networks
After a microearthquake network is in operation, the first problem facing the seismologist is to determine the basic parameters of the recorded earthquakes, such as origin time, hypocenter location, magnitude, faultplane solution, etc. In Chapter ...
William Hung Kan Lee, S. W. Stewart, 1981
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Geology in the Siting of Nuclear Power Plants
The above-mentioned problems with subsidiary phases were minimized by the use of joint hypocenter determination (see below, under Strategies for Minimizing Location Bias . . .). The epicenters shown in Figures 2 and 3 are those of the ...
Allen W. Hatheway, Cole R. McClure, 1979
10
Radiation Risk Estimates in Normal and Emergency Situations
2 as a function of distance from the hypocenter. The important distance is 1 – 2 km from the hypocenter because the people who were in this range received significant radiation and many of them survived. At 1 km from the hypocenter radiation ...
Arrigo A. Cigna, Marco Durante, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HYPOCENTER»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hypocenter is used in the context of the following news items.
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Hibakusha takes to Skype to relate Hiroshima bombing experience …
Kajimoto was 14 years old when exposed to radiation while 2.3 km away from the hypocenter of the atomic blast. She was working at a military ... «The Japan Times, Jul 15»
2
Events in Hiroshima and Nagasaki mark 70th anniversary of World …
Nearby is the Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Museum and a black obelisk marking the hypocenter of the blast, along with a small wall section from a ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Jul 15»
3
HILLSBOROUGH: College graduates share news of their achievement
... 1945, she was an eight-month-old infant at home less than one mile away from the hypocenter of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, ... «Packet Online, Jul 15»
4
From the Atom to Puccini
Lest we forget, our attention was called to the hypocenter of the landfall. Here, visitors and family members bring flowers in memoriam of their ... «Philippine Star, Jun 15»
5
4-5 magnitude quake hits Turkey
The quake measured 4-5 magnitude at the epicenter, and its hypocenter was 10 km beneath the surface. The quake was followed by a tremor ... «Aysor, Jun 15»
6
6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Hits Southeast of Fiji
The U.S. Geological Survey, which records seismic activity around the world, located the hypocenter at a depth of 563 km (350 miles) southeast of Fiji and ... «Latin American Herald Tribune, Jun 15»
7
Moderate mag. 5.8 earthquake - Timor Region on Monday, 15 June …
Moderate mag. 5.8 earthquake - Timor Region on Monday, 15 June 2015. Hypocenter depth recalculated from 57.0 to 58.0 km. I felt this quake. «VolcanoDiscovery, Jun 15»
8
Light mag. 4.8 earthquake - NEPAL on Saturday, 13 June 2015
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 2.0 to 10.0 km. I felt this quake. Date & time: Sat, 13 Jun 01:18:29 UTC Magnitude: 4.8. Depth: 10.0 km «VolcanoDiscovery, Jun 15»
9
EG Student Graduates from Centenary College
... 1945, she was an eight-month-old infant at home less than one mile away from the hypocenter of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, ... «Patch.com, Jun 15»
10
Strong mag. 6.0 earthquake - Hokkaido, Japan Region on Monday …
Hypocenter depth recalculated from 68.0 to 61.0 km. I felt this quake. Date & time: Mon, 8 Jun 06:01:11 UTC Magnitude: 6.0. Depth: 61.0 km «VolcanoDiscovery, Jun 15»

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« EDUCALINGO. Hypocenter [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/hypocenter>. Apr 2024 ».
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