Explore Cratering through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Cratering meaning
present participle and gerund of crater
Using Cratering
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of crater
- In the example corpus, cratering often appears in combinations such as: impact cratering, is cratering, the cratering.
Context around Cratering
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 8 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Cratering
- In this selection, "cratering" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, impact, markets, half, rate, occupancy and processes stand out and add context to how "cratering" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include away from cratering out and by impact cratering. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "cratering" sits close to words such as aal, aalto and aardvark, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with cratering
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The Jets are five weeks away from cratering out. (9 words)
The concept of impact cratering remained more or less speculative until the 1960s. (13 words)
The shaped charge is used to bore a hole for a cratering charge. (13 words)
Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering. (40 words)
Since the Earth could be expected to have roughly the same cratering rate as the Moon, it became clear that the Earth had suffered far more impacts than could be seen by counting evident craters. (35 words)
Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not. (34 words)
Example sentences (17)
Stock markets cratering are perhaps the most important economic indicator and the most visible, even if most Trump supporters don't invest much.
Because especially in that second-half cratering in 2023, Hurts was not the same guy he had been before.
Mastio added: “The results are clear: As with much of the rest of the woke traditional press, trust from the public is cratering.
The 30% drop had oil-linked currencies cratering – the rouble fell 9% – and the stock prices of household-name oil majors from Shell to ExxonMobil were down by double digits.
The coronavirus crisis has not only sent the hotel industry reeling by cratering occupancy rates.
The Jets are five weeks away from cratering out.
Wether it is the cratering of post apartheid South Africa, the Muslim terror across Western Europe.
According to an analysis of Ida's cratering processes, its surface is more than a billion years old.
Cratering is seen on both types of terrain, but is especially extensive on the dark terrain: it appears to be saturated with impact craters and has evolved largely through impact events.
If true, the vast majority of impacts happened in that epoch, whereas the cratering rate has been much smaller since.
Initially Barringer's ideas were not widely accepted, and even when the origin of Meteor Crater was finally acknowledged, the wider implications for impact cratering as a significant geological process on Earth were not.
Many other shock-related changes take place within both impactor and target as the shock wave passes through, and some of these changes can be used as diagnostic tools to determine whether particular geological features were produced by impact cratering.
Since the Earth could be expected to have roughly the same cratering rate as the Moon, it became clear that the Earth had suffered far more impacts than could be seen by counting evident craters.
The ages of multi-ring structures and impact craters depend on chosen background cratering rates and are estimated by different authors to vary between 1 and 4 billion years.
The concept of impact cratering remained more or less speculative until the 1960s.
The most frequent hypervelocity cratering events on the Earth are caused by iron meteoroids, which are most easily able to transit the atmosphere intact.
The shaped charge is used to bore a hole for a cratering charge.
Common combinations with cratering
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- impact cratering 3×
- is cratering 2×
- the cratering 2×
- cratering rate 2×