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erosion - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface.
- noun The process of eroding or the condition of being eroded.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or operation of eating or gnawing away.
- noun Hence The act of wearing away by any means.
- noun In zoology, the abrasion or wearing away of a surface or margin, as if by gnawing; the state of being erose; the act of eroding.
- noun In geology, the wearing away of rocks by water and other agencies of geological change.
- noun The state of being eaten or worn away; corrosion; canker; ulceration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
- noun The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.
- noun The wearing away of the earth's surface by any natural process. The chief agent of erosion is running water; minor agents are glaciers, the wind, and waves breaking against the coast.
- noun fig. a gradual reduction or lessening as if by an erosive force.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The
result of having been beingworn away oreroded , as by aglacier onrock or thesea on acliff face . - noun uncountable The changing of a surface by
mechanical action,friction ,thermal expansion contraction , orimpact . - noun uncountable Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
- noun mathematics, image processing One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
- noun dentistry Loss of tooth
enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes. - noun medicine A shallow
ulceration orlesion , usually involving skin orepithelial tissue.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a gradual decline of something
- noun erosion by chemical action
- noun (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
- noun condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Latin ērōsiō, ērōsiōn-, an eating away, from ērōsus, eaten away; see erose.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Latin erosio ("eating away"), derived from erodere, possibly via erosionem and Middle French erosion.
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Examples
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Under the term erosion I include the action of water, of ice, and of the atmosphere, including frost and rain.
Fragments of science, V. 1-2 John Tyndall 1856
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Both of these trends make sense but I think Lovell makes a more interesting observation when he talks about what he describes as the erosion of the hardcore.
Indie games retailers struggling - hardcore gamer decline to blame? 2010
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Later, explaining his opinion to a reporter, Sununu cited a $250 million state budget deficit; what he called the erosion of family values in the last legislative session; and Lynch's failure to persuade lawmakers from his own party to vote for his constitutional amendment on education.
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This erosion is most definitely due to modern communication.
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This erosion is most definitely due to modern communication.
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MPs on the committee called for the World Service budget to be protected to "prevent any risk of long-term erosion of the World Service's funding and of parliament's right to oversee its work".
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It looks like investors populating NLY options are bracing for near-term erosion in the price of the REITs shares through August expiration.
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The financial erosion from the credit crunch also has affected Europe.
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Still, it's worth considering whether something other than normal erosion is affecting American Idol (Fox, tonight, 8 ET/PT).
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It looks like investors populating NLY options are bracing for near-term erosion in the price of the REITs shares through August expiration.
Related Words
synonyms (105)
Words with the same meaning
- ablation
- abrading
- abrasion
- abrasive
- absorption
- abstraction
- assimilation
- atomization
- attrition
- breakup
- buffing
- burning up
- burnishing
- canker
- chafe
- chafing
- consumption
- corroding
- corrosion
- crumbling
- decay
- decomposition
- decrease
- decrement
- deduction
- degradation
- deliquescence
- denudation
- depletion
- depreciation
- destruction
- detrition
- digestion
- dilapidation
- disintegration
- disjunction
- disorganization
- dissipation
- dissolution
- drain
- dressing
- eating
- eating up
- eolation
- erasure
- evaporation
- exhaustion
- expending
- expenditure
- filing
- finishing
- fraying
- fret
- fretting
- galling
- grazing
- grinding
- impoverishment
- incoherence
- ingestion
- leakage
- limation
- loss
- polishing
- purification
- rasping
- ravages of time
- refinement
- removal
- resolution
- rubbing away
- sandblasting
- sanding
- scouring
- scrape
- scraping
- scratch
- scratching
- scrub
- scrubbing
- scuff
- shining
- shrinkage
- smoothing
- spending
- squandering
- subduction
- sublation
- subtraction
- taking away
- use
- using
- using up
- washout
- wastage
- waste
- wastefulness
- wasting away
- water gall
- wear
- wear and tear
- wearing
- wearing away
- wearing down
- weathering
senwick commented on the word erosion
What is the opposite of this word?
March 31, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word erosion
...accretion?
March 31, 2009