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Definition of Outbursts
1. outburst [n] - See also: outburst
Lexicographical Neighbors of Outbursts
Literary usage of Outbursts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report (1873)
"manifold dislocations by later outbursts, and one of the instances is represented
... Here we have evidence of three distinct outbursts of trachytic masses ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... in the simple and childlike lyric yearning of the ingenuous soul, again in
the loftiest and most vehement outbursts of which man's nature is capable. ..."
3. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Successive partial outbursts.—It seems consistent with the conditions of the case
to assume that the protuberances would consist of a succession of more or ..."
4. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1905)
"Successive partial outbursts.—It seems consistent with the conditions of the case
to assume that the protuberances would consist of a succession of more or ..."
5. Geology by Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, Rollin D. Salisbury (1906)
"Successive partial outbursts.—It seems consistent with the conditions of the case
to assume that the protuberances would consist of a succession of more or ..."
6. Transactions of the Manchester Geological Society by Manchester Geological Society (1895)
"Mine managers inform me that one way of reducing the effects of these outbursts
of solid coal at ' slack-veins' is to take as wide a face as possible where ..."
7. Journal by Chartered Insurance Institute (1889)
"The consumption of coal was comparatively small ; with uninterrupted working it
did not exceed 12 tons a month.* Outbursts of Gas in Metalliferous Mines. ..."