Meanings
nounend-member (plural end-members)
plural end-members
- alternativeAlternative form of endmember.
1 more example
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.
1990, Roy Chester, “The Transport of Material to the Oceans: The Atmospheric Pathway”, in Marine Geochemistry, London: Unwin Hyman, →DOI, →ISBN, page 43
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