"megatsunami" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˌmɛɡətsuːˈnɑːmi/, /ˌmɛɡəsuːˈnɑːmi/ Forms: megatsunamis [plural], megatsunami [plural]
enPR: mega-tso͞o-nä'mi, mega-so͞o-nä'mi Etymology: From mega- + tsunami. Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|mega|tsunami}} mega- + tsunami Head templates: {{en-noun|s|megatsunami}} megatsunami (plural megatsunamis or megatsunami)
  1. (oceanography) An extremely large tsunami-like wave caused by an avalanche or landslide displacing large amounts of water very quickly. Wikidata QID: Q583313 Categories (topical): Oceanography Translations (extremely large wave caused by an avalanche or landslide): мегацуна́ми (megacunámi) [neuter] (Bulgarian), megatsunami [masculine] (Catalan), 大海嘯 (Chinese Cantonese), 大海啸 (Chinese Cantonese), 大海嘯 (Chinese Mandarin), 大海啸 (dàhǎixiào) (Chinese Mandarin), megatsunami (Finnish), mégatsunami [masculine] (French), Megatsunami [masculine] (German), megacunami (Hungarian), megatsunami [masculine] (Italian), 大津波 (ōtsunami) (alt: おおつなみ) (Japanese), megatsunami [neuter] (Polish), megatsunami [masculine] (Portuguese), мегацуна́ми (megacunámi) [neuter] (Russian), мегацунами [Cyrillic, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), megacunami [Roman, masculine] (Serbo-Croatian), megatsunami [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-megatsunami-en-noun-en:Q583313 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms prefixed with mega-, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with Bulgarian translations, Terms with Cantonese translations, Terms with Catalan translations, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with French translations, Terms with German translations, Terms with Hungarian translations, Terms with Italian translations, Terms with Japanese translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Polish translations, Terms with Portuguese translations, Terms with Russian translations, Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations, Terms with Spanish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 93 7 Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with mega-: 59 41 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 91 9 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 92 8 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 94 6 Disambiguation of Terms with Bulgarian translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Cantonese translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Catalan translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with German translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Hungarian translations: 85 15 Disambiguation of Terms with Italian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Japanese translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Polish translations: 87 13 Disambiguation of Terms with Portuguese translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 93 7 Disambiguation of Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations: 86 14 Disambiguation of Terms with Spanish translations: 95 5 Topics: geography, natural-sciences, oceanography Disambiguation of 'extremely large wave caused by an avalanche or landslide': 89 11
  2. (loosely) A very large tsunami. Tags: broadly
    Sense id: en-megatsunami-en-noun-fvt6fRW-
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: ice tsunami, meteotsunami, teletsunami, tsunami, earthquake, flood, natural disaster, seaquake, seiche, tidal wave

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.