"geosyncline" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from geosynclinal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geosynclines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "geosyncline (plural geosynclines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Geology",
          "orig": "en:Geology",
          "parents": [
            "Earth sciences",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "eugeosyncline"
        },
        {
          "word": "geosynclinal"
        },
        {
          "word": "miogeosyncline"
        },
        {
          "word": "miogeocline"
        },
        {
          "word": "orthogeosyncline"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 173",
          "text": "Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates."
      ],
      "id": "en-geosyncline-en-noun-lm4FYmnc",
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ],
        [
          "crust",
          "crust"
        ],
        [
          "sediment",
          "sediment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "geosyncline"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dʒiːəʊˈsɪŋklʌɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "geosyncline"
}

{
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "eugeosyncline"
    },
    {
      "word": "geosynclinal"
    },
    {
      "word": "miogeosyncline"
    },
    {
      "word": "miogeocline"
    },
    {
      "word": "orthogeosyncline"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from geosynclinal.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "geosynclines",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "geosyncline (plural geosynclines)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English 4-syllable words",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Geology"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 173",
          "text": "Forty years ago the crumpled and complex Mobile Belt of Newfoundland would have been considered a typical result of a deformed geosyncline.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geology",
          "geology"
        ],
        [
          "depression",
          "depression"
        ],
        [
          "Earth",
          "Earth"
        ],
        [
          "crust",
          "crust"
        ],
        [
          "sediment",
          "sediment"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(geology) A large, linear depression in the Earth's crust in which sediment accumulates."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "geology",
        "natural-sciences"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "geosyncline"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/dʒiːəʊˈsɪŋklʌɪn/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "geosyncline"
}