| 单词 |
hydrology |
| 释义 |
hydrology|haɪˈdrɒlədʒɪ|
[ad. mod.L. hydrologia, f. Gr. ὑδρο- water: see -logy. Cf. F. hydrologie.]
1. The science which treats of water, its properties and laws, its distribution over the earth's surface, etc.
1762tr. Busching's Syst. Geog. I. 49 Wallerius was the first who made accurate enquiries into the Aqueous Kingdom, or Hydrology. 1796Hutton Math. Dict., Hydrology, is that part of natural history which examines and explains the nature and properties of water in general. 1866Proc. Amer. Phil. Soc. X. 209 Mr. Blackwell's memoir entitled ‘The Hydrology of the St. Laurence’. 1895Westm. Gaz. 11 Sept. 7/2 The whole science of hydrology..depends on the study of rainfall.
2. Med. The branch of medicine concerned with treatment by baths and waters. rare.
[Cf. quots. 1670, 1716 s.v. hydrological a.]1850J. Bell (title) Dietetical and medical hydrology. A treatise on baths;..with a description of bathing in ancient and modern times. 1913R. F. Fox (title) The principles and practice of medical hydrology being the science of treatment by waters and baths.
Hence hyˈdrologist [cf. F. hydrologue], one skilled in hydrology.
1830in Maunder Dict. Eng. Lang. 1938Times 19 Feb. 13/2 With Papanin..on Franz Josef Land..were P. P. Shirshoff, a hydrologist and hydrobiologist, E. K. Federoff, [etc.]. 1971Nature 30 July 301/1 Flood, erosion, drought and pollution..are also the chief problems facing the hydrologist. |
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