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==Origin==
from [[Latin]] ''maeander'', from [[Greek]] ''Maiandros'', the name of the [[river]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Menderes_River Menderes] located in present-day Turkey and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by a very convoluted [[path]] along the lower reach. As such, even in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece Classical Greece] (and in later Greek thought) the name of the river had become a common noun meaning anything convoluted and winding, such as decorative [[patterns]] or [[speech]] and [[ideas]], as well as the geomorphological feature. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabo Strabo] said: "... its course is so exceedingly winding that everything winding is called meandering."
The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet, Turkey. It flows through a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graben graben] in the Menderes Massif, but has a flood plain much wider than the meander zone in its lower reach. It's modern Turkish name is the ''Büyük Menderes River''.
==Definitions==
*1: a winding [[path]] or [[course]]; especially : [[labyrinth]]
*2: a turn or winding of a [[stream]]
*3: (of a person) [[wander]] at [[random]]: kids meandered in and out.
*4: of a speaker or [[text]]) proceed aimlessly or with little [[purpose]]: a stylish offbeat thriller which occasionally meanders.
*5: an ornamental [[pattern]] of winding or interlocking lines, e.g., in a [[mosaic]].
==Description==
A '''meander''', in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or [[river]]. A meander [[forms]] when moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its [[valley]], and the inner part of the river has less energy and deposits silt. A stream of any volume may assume a meandering [[course]], alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley [[axis]]. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbow_lake oxbow lake] forms. Over time meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering [[problems]] for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges.
There is not yet full [[consistency]] or standardization of scientific [[terminology]] used to describe watercourses. A variety of [[symbols]] and schemes exist. Parameters based on mathematical formulae or numerical [[data]] vary as well, depending on the database used by the theorist. Unless otherwise defined in a specific scheme "meandering" and "sinuosity" here are synonymous and mean any repetitious pattern of bends, or waveforms. In some schemes, "meandering" applies only to rivers with exaggerated circular loops or secondary meanders; that is, meanders on meanders.
Sinuosity is one of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_types channel types] that a stream may assume over all or part of its course. All streams are sinuous at some time in their geologic history over some part of their length.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander]
[[Category: Earth Science]]
==Origin==
from [[Latin]] ''maeander'', from [[Greek]] ''Maiandros'', the name of the [[river]] [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCy%C3%BCk_Menderes_River Menderes] located in present-day Turkey and known to the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Greeks Ancient Greeks] as Μαίανδρος Maiandros (Latin: Maeander), characterised by a very convoluted [[path]] along the lower reach. As such, even in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_Greece Classical Greece] (and in later Greek thought) the name of the river had become a common noun meaning anything convoluted and winding, such as decorative [[patterns]] or [[speech]] and [[ideas]], as well as the geomorphological feature. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strabo Strabo] said: "... its course is so exceedingly winding that everything winding is called meandering."
The Meander River is located south of Izmir, east of the ancient Greek town of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miletus Miletus], now, Milet, Turkey. It flows through a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graben graben] in the Menderes Massif, but has a flood plain much wider than the meander zone in its lower reach. It's modern Turkish name is the ''Büyük Menderes River''.
==Definitions==
*1: a winding [[path]] or [[course]]; especially : [[labyrinth]]
*2: a turn or winding of a [[stream]]
*3: (of a person) [[wander]] at [[random]]: kids meandered in and out.
*4: of a speaker or [[text]]) proceed aimlessly or with little [[purpose]]: a stylish offbeat thriller which occasionally meanders.
*5: an ornamental [[pattern]] of winding or interlocking lines, e.g., in a [[mosaic]].
==Description==
A '''meander''', in general, is a bend in a sinuous watercourse or [[river]]. A meander [[forms]] when moving water in a stream erodes the outer banks and widens its [[valley]], and the inner part of the river has less energy and deposits silt. A stream of any volume may assume a meandering [[course]], alternately eroding sediments from the outside of a bend and depositing them on the inside. The result is a snaking pattern as the stream meanders back and forth across its down-valley [[axis]]. When a meander gets cut off from the main stream, an [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbow_lake oxbow lake] forms. Over time meanders migrate downstream, sometimes in such a short time as to create civil engineering [[problems]] for local municipalities attempting to maintain stable roads and bridges.
There is not yet full [[consistency]] or standardization of scientific [[terminology]] used to describe watercourses. A variety of [[symbols]] and schemes exist. Parameters based on mathematical formulae or numerical [[data]] vary as well, depending on the database used by the theorist. Unless otherwise defined in a specific scheme "meandering" and "sinuosity" here are synonymous and mean any repetitious pattern of bends, or waveforms. In some schemes, "meandering" applies only to rivers with exaggerated circular loops or secondary meanders; that is, meanders on meanders.
Sinuosity is one of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channel_types channel types] that a stream may assume over all or part of its course. All streams are sinuous at some time in their geologic history over some part of their length.[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meander]
[[Category: Earth Science]]
