(geodynamics, tectonics) A proposed driving force for plate motion in plate tectonics that occurs at mid-ocean ridges as the result of the rigid lithosphere sliding down the hot, raised asthenosphe...

(organic chemistry) The keto carboxylic acid, (CH₃)₂-CO-COOH, that is a metabolite of valine

present participle of interpale

Having the same, or a constant, slope