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Webster 1913 Edition

Adj.

[L.

quaqua

wheresoever, whithersoever +

versus

, p. p. of

vertere

to turn.]

Turning or dipping in any or every direction.

(Geol.)

Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.

quaquaversal ‎(comparative more quaquaversal, superlative most quaquaversal)

going off in all directions from the center
- 1990, Thomas Pynchon, Vineland:
  She had a long look at him, and after having just spent hours with Frenesi’s face, found it easier now to make out, past the quaquaversal beard and smudged eyeglass lenses, as clearly as she ever would in Zoyd her own not-yet-come-to-terms-with face.
- 2015, Robert Macfarlane, Landmarks:
  It is a brilliantly managed scene, quaquaversal in its geometries, simultaneously expanding present space and deepening past time.
(astronomy) dipping towards a centre in all directions

going off in all directions at once towards a center

astronomy: dipping towards a centre in all directions