Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not compact; not firm or settled.
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- adjective Not
compacted
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Examples
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The volcano ejected a minimum of 1.1 km3 of uncompacted tephra, which is equivalent to 0. 20-0.25 km3 of magma or solid rock.
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The volcano ejected a minimum of 1.1 km3 of uncompacted tephra, which is equivalent to 0. 20-0.25 km3 of magma or solid rock.
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In its very center lay a broad, shallow valley where so much moisture accumulated that the soil became a veritable sponge, too loose and uncompacted to support normal root growth.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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In its very center lay a broad, shallow valley where so much moisture accumulated that the soil became a veritable sponge, too loose and uncompacted to support normal root growth.
Into the Thinking Kingdoms Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1999
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ยท The compression ratio, which is the difference between the depth of the mould (with uncompacted earth) to the height of the compressed block, should not be less than 1.65, preferably around 2, which is rarely achieved by mechanical compaction.
Chapter 5 1988
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MISTS are, strictly speaking, uncompacted Exhalations, which while they fleet near the Earth are styled _Mists_, but when they ascend into the
The Shepherd of Banbury's Rules to Judge of the Changes of the Weather, Grounded on Forty Years' Experience John Claridge
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Beets will root far deeper and wider than most people realize -- in uncompacted, nonacid soils.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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One of these beds, which appears on Peachtree, is a soft, uncompacted brown ochre, which has been mined for paint.
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Lord Lyttelton had never the appearance of a strong or of a healthy man; he had a slender, uncompacted frame, and a meagre face: he lasted, however, sixty years, and was then seized with his last illness.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes Volume the Eighth: The Lives of the Poets, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746
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Lord Lyttelton had never the appearance of a strong or of a healthy man; he had a slender, uncompacted frame, and a meagre face; he lasted, however, sixty years, and was then seized with his last illness.
Johnson's Lives of the Poets โ Volume 2 Samuel Johnson 1746
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