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noun the process of mountain formation (especially by the upward displacement of the earth's crust)
originFrom French orogénie, from Ancient Greek ὄρος (óros, “mountain, high ground”) + γενεια (geneia, “creation, birth, making”). By surface analysis, oro- + -geny.
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