upwelling
上涌,上流,上升气流,上游
Definitions
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- : an act or instance of welling up: an upwelling of public support; an upwelling of emotion in his voice.
- : Oceanography. the process by which warm, less-dense surface water is drawn away from along a shore by offshore currents and replaced by cold, denser water brought up from the subsurface.
Examples
Another big question is how convection in the mantle—the upwelling of hot rock—is affecting the crustal blocks’ motion on Venus.
It just happens that our latest offering is being released at the time of a terrible upwelling of violence.
That could show if upwellings are driving other continents apart too.
They might help show how much upwelling of the deep mantle drives a spreading of the Atlantic seafloor.
Sorrow in her was aroused by many a spectacle—an uncritical upwelling of grief for the weak and the helpless.
For that very reason he feels as never before a great upwelling of affection for all things around him, animate and inanimate.
"I'll have to tell him something," she thought with a sudden upwelling of feeling as regarded the seriousness of this duty.
But the mood passed away before a fresh upwelling of concrete resentment against the self-pampered pair at the Promenade window.
But the hollowness of Cally's speech had mocked the sudden sympathy upwelling within her.