Endmember

Quick meaning: Endmember is a noun meaning A member at one end of a range or series made up of similar members.

Meaning

A member at one end of a range or series made up of similar members.

More Meanings

1. (mineralogy, specifically) A mineral that occurs at one end in a range of solid solutions.

Example Sentences

The category includes poorly preserved specimens and specimens that do not fall into the endmember morphotypes of recognized species.

Both the endmembers, epidote and clinozoisite, form the epidote sequence, in which part of the aluminium is progressively replaced by Fe³⁺; epidote is a typical mineral of the greenschist facies.

These data may therefore represent mixtures of gases from two (or more) distinct sources. One endmember appears to be slightly enriched in ⁸⁴Kr and ¹³²Xe relative to the vug quartz fluids; the other endmember is relatively enriched in ³⁶Ar.

In real estuaries, river water and seawater seldom mix together directly as endmembers. Rather, mixing takes place in a continuous manner that may be approximated by a series of water types, each of which has a salinity close to that of its neighbours.

Word Forms

• endmembers
• end member
• end-member

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include member, element, subensemble, subset, membership, penultimate.

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