DIASTROPHISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does diastrophism mean? 

• DIASTROPHISM (noun)
  The noun DIASTROPHISM has 1 sense:

1. the process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust

  Familiarity information: DIASTROPHISM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DIASTROPHISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of deformation that produces continents and ocean basins in the earth's crust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("diastrophism" is a kind of...):

geologic process; geological process ((geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified)