Usually means: Mountain formation through tectonic processes.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. orogeny: Merriam-Webster
  2. orogeny: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. orogeny: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. orogeny: Collins English Dictionary
  5. orogeny: Vocabulary.com
  6. orogeny: Wordnik
  7. orogeny: Wiktionary
  8. orogeny: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. orogeny: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. orogeny: Dictionary.com
  11. Orogeny: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. orogeny: Rhymezone
  13. orogeny: FreeDictionary.org
  14. orogeny: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. orogeny: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. orogeny: Encyclopedia

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. orogeny: Dictionary of Geology
  2. orogeny: Natural History Terms

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (orogeny)

noun:  (geology) The process of mountain building by the upward folding of the Earth's crust.

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