end-member

English

Noun

end-member (plural end-members)

  1. Alternative form of endmember.
    • 1990, Roy Chester, “The Transport of Material to the Oceans: The Atmospheric Pathway”, in Marine Geochemistry, London: Unwin Hyman, DOI:10.1007/978-94-010-9488-7, →ISBN, page 43:
      The physicochemical processes that control the estuarine filter must therefore be considered to operate in terms of a framework involving particulate-dissolved recycling associated with three estuarine end-members, i.e. river water, sea water (which may consist of more than one component end-member), and sediments.
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