welling

See also: Welling

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɛlɪŋ/
• Rhymes: -ɛlɪŋ

Verb

welling

1. present participle of well

Noun

welling (plural wellings)

1. The act of something that wells, or issues forth like water.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, OCLC 751607287, page 32:

     It spread slowly up from the sea-rim, a welling upwards of pure white light, ghosting the beach with silver and drawing the grey bastions of sandstone out of formless space.

   • 1947, T. A. Jaggar, Origin and Development of Craters

     Later experience suggested that such wellings up of molten glass from caverns filled with active lava in a period of outflow might be due to sudden generation of steam from cascades of water during torrential rainfall.

Derived terms

• downwelling
• upwelling