Eolian
adjective
a variant spelling of Aeolian
Eolian
British
/ iːˈəʊlɪən /
adjective
eolian
Scientific
/ ē-ō′lē-ən /
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Eolian L.P., the developer, recently brought similar battery projects online in Texas and plans to begin construction in Portland later this year.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023
It's a short step from Hopkins to the full-blown pantheism of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's "The Eolian Harp".
From The Guardian ● Apr. 12, 2013
They paid to play because you never knew who might be in the Eolian that night, listening.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
He milled through the three levels of the Eolian, talking with everyone, young and old, musician and not.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
After I finished my errand I headed to the Eolian.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
Aeolian, sometimes spelled eolian or œolian, are deposits of windblown sediments.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 1, 2017
Basaltic minerals in the mudstone are similar to those in nearby eolian deposits.
From Science Magazine ● Jan. 23, 2014
After a brief disporting of this air-sprite we hear again the soft eolian harmonies, which rise and fall until lulled into silence.
From Stars of the Opera by Mabel Wagnalls
A strange, roseate light shone through the spaces among their trunks, and the wind made in their branches the music of eolian harps.
From The Scrap Book. Volume 1, No. 2 April 1906 by Various
The conditions would be almost ideal for eolian erosion and for the transportation of loess by the wind to areas a little more remote from the ice where grassy vegetation had made a start.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
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