trough
槽,波谷,低谷,谷底
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Definitions
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- : a long, narrow, open receptacle, usually boxlike in shape, used chiefly to hold water or food for animals.
- : any of several similarly shaped receptacles used for various commercial or household purposes.
- : a channel or conduit for conveying water, as a gutter under the eaves of a building for carrying away rainwater.
- : any long depression or hollow, as between two ridges or waves.
- : Oceanography. a long, wide, and deep depression in the ocean floor having gently sloping sides, wider and shallower than a trench.Compare trench.
- : Meteorology. an elongated area of relatively low pressure.
- : the lowest point, especially in an economic cycle.
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Cooler air in the core of the trough aloft will help destabilize the atmosphere, and increase the winds in middle levels of the atmosphere.
Outside of Austin, I found the NLand Surf Park, which had a mechanical wave that breaks using a man-made trough.
The line is straighter where the peaks and troughs are less for now.
Like a wave on water, you can think of a light wave as a series of peaks and troughs moving through space.
With an influx of shoppers expected to flood to the site on its Prime Days on June 21 and 22, now is the time to put up an electric fence preventing Google from feeding off that valuable data trough.
Plunging toward the trough of a shockwave, the engine screams to a halt.
It was time for the cattle to drink from their watering trough.
In the famous case of Solyndra, newly released emails reveal what the feeding trough looks like.
Over the course of two to three months they teach freshly weaned calves how to eat from a bunk and drink from a water trough.
Strangely, the year marked a trough, since their 1996 return reported donations of $35,530.
And right after that, some nice sour milk would come splashing down into the trough of the pen.
But there was nothing in the trough to eat, as yet, and the box seemed quite lonesome, for Squinty was all alone.