piedmont
pronunciation
How to pronounce piedmont in British English:
UK ['pi:dmənt]
How to pronounce piedmont in American English:
US ['pidˌmɒnt]
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- Noun:
- the plateau between the coastal plain and the Appalachian Mountains: parts of Virginia and North and South Carolina and Georgia and Alabama
- the region of northwestern Italy; includes the Po valley
Word Origin
- piedmont (n.)
- name given to the fertile upland region along the eastern slope of the Appalachians, 1755, originally piemont, from Italian Piemonte, literally "mountain foot," name of the region at the foot of the Alps in northern Italy (see Piedmont). With -d- added by 1855. Applied to similar features of other mountain ranges by 1860.
- Piedmont
- region in northern Italy, from Old Italian pie di monte "foot of the mountains," from pie "foot" (see foot (n.)) + monte "mountain" (see mount (n.)). Related: Piedmontese.
Example
- 1. The northern piedmont belt of the Taibei sag is one of the oil-rich structural belts in the Turpan-Hami Basin .
- 2. Well Bashi-2 is an exploratory well in the piedmont structure of Tarim oilfield , with its TD at 3587 m.
- 3. Seismic exploration methods and effect in Kunlun piedmont zone
- 4. The depositional cycle structure of the Huangxian Formation is very clear and we can divide it into three piedmont cycles .
- 5. Carbonate rocks are widespread along South piedmont of Tianshan , northwest Tarim Basin , where is dry-warm temperate continental climate .