Headward

Quick meaning: Headward is an adjective meaning (geology) Cutting backwards or upstream above the original source.

Meaning

(geology) Cutting backwards or upstream above the original source.

More Meanings

1. Toward the head.
2. In a headward direction.

Example Sentences

When lift is applied, forces are experienced which appear to the pilot as being applied from a headward direction, i.e., from head to toe.

The highest, flattest, and smoothest part of Tibet (3 ) is the central, Oligo-Miocene plateau, mature but still sheltered, especially in the west, from headward erosion.

Even without the structures, there was a morphological feedback: As headward stream channels widened from lateral erosion, new floodplains developed that were lower, fine textured, and vegetated (Fig. 3 ), a condition noted in 1975 (2 ).

As the isthmus disappeared at the close of the 17th century, the river continued to erode the island headward and build it up at its downstream end, so that the western and southern shores where the first settlement had been built, were partly destroyed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include upstreamward, obsequent, upstreamwards, upgradient, upbound, hind.

Related Dictionary Tools