EROSION
\ɪɹˈə͡ʊʒən], \ɪɹˈəʊʒən], \ɪ_ɹ_ˈəʊ_ʒ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EROSION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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erosion by chemical action
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(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)
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a gradual decline of something; "after the accounting scandal there was an erosion of confidence in the auditors"
By Princeton University
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The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
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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.
By Oddity Software
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The act or operation of eroding or eating away.
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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.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William R. Warner
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The act or operation of eating or wearing away: specifically, in med. the gradual destruction of the substance of a part by ulceration, or by increased action of the absorbents, whether spontaneous or excited by the action of some irritating substance: the state of being eaten or worn away; corrosion; canker.
By Daniel Lyons
By James Champlin Fernald
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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The action of a corrosive substance, or the gradual destruction of a part by a substance of that kind. It is often employed in the same sense as ulceration,-spontaneous erosion.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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A circumscribed superficial loss of substance; as in e. of the cervix uteri or chancrous e. [Lat.]
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An eating away; the action and the effect of a corrosive substance.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
