Meaning of aqal | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A town in Kalpin, Aksu prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China, formerly a township.
2. Initialism of all quadrants, all levels (“a kind of grid used in integral theory, with four quadrants covering an interior-exterior and an individual-collective scale”).
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
3. A kind of wigwam built by the nomadic Somali and Afar people.

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“Barred Warbler Sylvia nisoria 5+ males holding territory in a popular grove in Aqal town. Described as rare in China (Cheng 1987).”

“Separated by the line from Aksu, through Aqal to Markit, a suite of varicoloured mudstone, silty mudstone and sandy conglomerate interbeds with intercalations of andesite, basalt and dacite outcrops in the east, and in the west there is a set of granular carbonate and grey-back sandy mudstone interbeds with the[…]”

“At Aqal, the Middle Ordovician Qilang and Yingan formations are c. 320 m thick, but are completely absent in the Mystery Canyon, 100 km to the west.”

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