Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun As much of a volcano as remains after the formation of a caldera, whose rim is like a ring.
- noun One of the large crater-like formations on the moon, inferior in size to the bulwark plains.
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Examples
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Very many radiate from a large ring-mountain called Tycho, in the southern hemisphere; and one of them extends, with some breaks, nearly three thousand miles, passing northward over the Sea of Serenity and finally disappearing on the moon's north-western edge, or 'limb,' as it is termed.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
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Owing to its size, brightness, and isolated position, this splendid ring-mountain can be seen from the earth without the aid of a glass; but even a field-glass will reveal much in this and similar formations which cannot be detected by the unaided eye.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
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I drew their attention to Proclus -- a ring-mountain on the eastern side of this sea -- which is about eighteen miles in diameter, and the second brightest of the lunar formations.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
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The view is a typical one, showing numerous craters and cracks, and a small ring-mountain with terracing.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story Mark Wicks
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She saw the jagged peaks nearby and the crenelated ring-mountain wall, miles off to one side, and the smooth frozen lava of the "sea."
Operation: Outer Space Murray Leinster 1935
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It was a picture of a crater, a ring-mountain, the scene of the impact of something terrible and huge.
Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935
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The ring-mountain there is largely worn away, but it was many miles across.
Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935
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Van Ertborn in 1876; [859] while an object near the northern horn of the crescent, strongly resembling a lunar ring-mountain, was delineated both by De Vico in 1841 and by Denning forty years later.
A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874
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On the east the travellers could easily see the ring-mountain _Condamine_, about 4000 feet high, while a little ahead on the right they could plainly distinguish _Fontenelle_ with an altitude nearly twice as great.
All Around the Moon Jules Verne 1866
ruzuzu commented on the word ring-mountain
Mount Doom?
April 19, 2017