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Exceedance

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Noun

1. exceedance

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

Example Sentences:
'the concept of exceedance can be applied to any type of environmental risk modeling'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Exceedance

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n.
The amount by which something, especially a pollutant, exceeds a standard or permissible measurement.

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