exceedance

1. 1.

   (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time

   “the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling”

   Broaderprobability

   geology

Other forms of exceedance

plural

exceedances·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about exceedance

What does exceedance mean?

exceedance means "(geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time".

How many syllables are in exceedance?

exceedance has 3 syllables: ex-cee-dance. The stress falls on "ex".

Is exceedance a common word?

exceedance is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.