guyot

See also: Guyot

English

Etymology

Coined by Harry Hammond Hess circa 1965 due to their similar appearance to Guyot Hall, the flat-topped geology building at Princeton University, which was in turn named after Swiss-American geologist Arnold Henry Guyot.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɡiː.əʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡiˈoʊ/

Noun

guyot (plural guyots)

1. (oceanography) A flat-topped seamount.
   • 2003, Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything, BCA, page 158:

     It was scored everywhere with canyons, trenches and crevasses and dotted with volcanic seamounts that he called guyots after an earlier Princeton geologist named Arnold Guyot.

Translations

flat-topped seamount

• Kven: guyotti

Anagrams

• gouty

French

Noun

guyot m (plural guyots)

1. guyot
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