guyotとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈɡiː.əʊ/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ɡiˈoʊ/
• 韻: -iːəʊ, -əʊ

名詞

guyot (plural guyots)

1. (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:

     It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.

アナグラム

• gouty