erosion
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
erosion
- (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
- 1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four:
- Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear?
Dougal: Erosion.
- Father Ted: The cliffs were gone? How could they just disappear?
- 2012, George Monbiot, Guardian Weekly, August 24, p.20
- Even second-generation biofuel#Noun|biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stover#Noun|stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and nutrient#Noun|nutrients in the ground.
- 1995, Graham Linehan & al., "Good Luck, Father Ted", Father Ted Series 1, Episode 1, Channel Four:
- (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
- (uncountable, figurative) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
- the erosion of a person's trust
- trademark erosion, caused by everyday use of the trademarked term
- (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
- (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
- (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
- (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
- (math) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).
- German: Erosion
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