ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Underdrag

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Underdrag is a noun meaning (transitive) To exert pull on the underside of (something).

Meaning

(transitive) To exert pull on the underside of (something).

More Meanings

  1. (intransitive) To undergo a pull from the underside.
  2. (geology) The tensile stress exerted by an overthrust rock mass upon overlying rocks which themselves are not under compressive thrusting stress and therefore tend to be stretched and broken by normal faulting.

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Related dictionary entries include undershift, underdrift, underbreak, upthrow, subduction, downflex.

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