exceedance

NOUN
10 LETTERS · STARTS WITH E

exceedance is a valid 10-letter word worth 22 points in Scrabble and 25 points in Words with Friends.

SCRABBLE WORDS WITH FRIENDS
E1X8C3E1E1D2A1N1C3E1
1 + 8 + 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + 3 + 1 =22 PTS
DOUBLE WORD → 44TRIPLE WORD → 66
MEANING

What does exceedance mean?

NOUN · 1 SENSE
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”

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