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  • noun geology The direction in which stratigraphy becomes younger, for a particular formation
  • verb Present participle of young.

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Examples

  • But different parts of the country will be aging at different rates, largely because selective "younging" is going on.

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • Then you get back to what is enjoyable to read though and younging them up probably goes toward that.

    When the character doesn't fit. Lori Devoti 2009

  • Even in a dual 7D and up quasi-static model of the universe fully incorporating the duality of SR/GR/QM and Schwarzschild, it could well be that there is no actua experience of the part of the universe which exists in decreasing thermal and increasing informational entropy (the “younging” “hemisphere”).

    Incompatible Arrows, III: Lewis Carroll Sean 2008

  • Old Pady Lig was having a teck of a hime younging her feedsters.

    The Pee Little Thrigs 2000

  • And of course he's right, but Astro is a charmer, good for casting, good for younging up the demos, etc.

    The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - The Washington Post Lisa de Moraes 2011

  • Northward thrusting of the duplexes suggests that subduction was from the northwest to the southeast, a polarity that is consistent with the northward younging of the volcanic arcs of the Ballantrae Complex.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Northward thrusting of the duplexes suggests that subduction was from the northwest to the southeast, a polarity that is consistent with the northward younging of the volcanic arcs of the Ballantrae Complex.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

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