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English
Etymology
From oro- + -genesis.
Noun
orogenesis (countable and uncountable, plural orogeneses)
- (geology) The process of mountain formation by deformation of the Earth's crust.
Synonyms
Translations
the process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust
- Arabic: تَكَوُّنُ الجِبَالِ m (takawwunu l-jibāli)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 造山運動 / 造山运动 (zh) (zàoshān yùndòng)
- Czech: orogeneze f
- Dutch: orogenese f
- Georgian: ოროგენეზისი (orogenezisi), მთათწარმოქმნა (mtatc̣armokmna), ოროგენეზი (orogenezi), ოროგენი (orogeni)
- German: Orogenese f, Gebirgsbildung (de) f
- Greek: ορογένεση (el) f (orogénesi)
- Hungarian: hegységképződés (hu), hegyképződés (hu), orogenezis (hu)
- Irish: oraigineas m
- Japanese: 造山運動 (ja) (ぞうざんうんどう, zōzanundō)
- Kazakh: орогенез (orogenez)
- Korean: 조산운동(造山運動) (ko) (josanundong)
- Latin: orogenesis f
- Persian: کوهزایی (fa)
- Portuguese: orogênese (pt) m (Brazil), orogénese (pt) m (Portugal)
- Russian: горообразование (ru) n (goroobrazovanije), орогенез (ru) m (orogenez)
- Tamil: மலை பிறப்பு (malai piṟappu)
- Thai: การก่อเทือกเขา
- Turkish: orojenez (tr)
- Uzbek: orogenez
- Vietnamese: kiến tạo sơn (建造山), kiến tạo núi (建造𡶀)
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