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trough | American Dictionary

trough
noun[ C ]
us/trɔf/

troughnoun[C] (CONTAINER)

a narrow, open box to hold water or food for animals

troughnoun[C] (LOW POINT)

a low point between two high points, as on a graph or record of activity:
Investors have to live through stock market troughs.

trough | Business English

trough
noun[ C ]
uk /trɒf/us
a situation in which something has reached its lowest level, price, etc. before going up again:
Your monthly payments will smooth over any peaks and troughs in the price of the shares.
Growth in services slowed to its lowest since the trough of the recession.
trough
verb[ I ]
 informaluk /trɒf/us
to reach a low level, price, etc. before going up again:
The economy troughed six months ago and is now growing again.

Examples of trough

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In particular, the wave become asymmetric with the amplitudes of crests exceeding the amplitudes of troughs.
The three-dimensional disturbance is found to be localized in a small region either along the crests or along the troughs.
Feed was administered in troughs with a wired cover.
During the initial field investigation at the petting zoo, samples of single fresh droppings from these animals and water samples from drinking troughs were collected.
Figure 3 shows the comparison of the averaged depth of the bar troughs during the course of the evolution.
Various types of solution are found, all of which travel without change of shape and some which are periodic with sharp crests and broad troughs.
The fluid dynamics of stromatoloid distribution, inclination and peripheral troughs are discussed.
Note that nonlinearity will produce a qualitative difference between crests and troughs of the standing wave.
The contingency analysis used monthly presence/absence data to identify species with multiple peaks or troughs in reproductive activity.
At both sites, fruit development times and the timing of both peaks and troughs of communitywide flowering and fruiting all track seasonal variation in irradiance.
The hay was chopped and placed in troughs made out ofmetal drums.
In cases of lower flow rates, these steepen until reaching a critical height, and hence a limiting configuration with sharp crests and broad troughs.
There are some peaks and troughs, as we might expect given the changing political context, but no clear pattern.
Even in the recessionary troughs, unemployment levels remained low by international standards.
Large-scale troughs as well as planar cross-strata are abundant in the lower part, whereas small-scale cross-strata are characteristic of the upper part.
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