Lowering

Lowering stands for:

• the change in state of a measuring system
• Measure for the buttstock of long guns, see lowering (weapon)
• Vertical movements of the earth's crust, see uplift (geology) , subsidence , sinkhole , settlement , pinge
• Sinking (Latin Descensus ) of organs of the abdominal cavity (for example as uterine subsidence ) from their normal position, see subsidence (medicine) and see also ptosis
• Sedimentation rate or sedimentation reaction in medicine
• a vowel sound change or an unstressed syllable, see accentuation (linguistics)
• a concept of verse doctrine, see elevation (verse doctrine)
• a conical or cylindrical recess in the bores for receiving screw heads, see countersinks

See also:

Wiktionary: lowering  - explanations of meanings, word origins, synonyms, translations

• Subsidence
• Double countersink
• Sink
• Sinking

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