Meaning

1 senses
  1. Of or pertaining to ground water; (volcanology) involving explosively rapid heating of ground water by magma.

    1979 [McGraw-Hill], Jacob Bear, Hydraulics of Groundwater, 2007, Dover, page 76, Both ϕ and q vary from point to point within a phreatic aquifer.

    phreatisch, phreatische Explosion

    фреатический взрывfreatičeskij vzryv

    of or relating to ground water

Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
Of, or pertaining to ground water:
Eruption / explosion caused by contact between groundwater and high-temperature material:

Origin

From Ancient Greek stem of φρέαρ (phréar, “well, spring”).

From Ancient Greek stem of φρέαρ (phréar, “well, spring”).

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Forms

more phreatic, most phreatic
Comparativemore phreatic Lesson
Superlativemost phreatic Lesson

regular

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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