different between erosion vs avulsion
erosion
English
Etymology
From Middle French erosion, from Latin ?r?si? (“eating away”), derived from ?r?d?.
The first known occurrence in English was in the 1541 translation by Robert Copland of Guy de Chauliac's medical text The Questyonary of Cyrurygens. Copland used erosion to describe how ulcers developed in the mouth. By 1774 erosion was used outside medical subjects. Oliver Goldsmith employed the term in the more contemporary geological context, in his book Natural History, with the quote
- "Bounds are thus put to the erosion of the earth by water."
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /???o???n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???????n/
Noun
erosion (countable and uncountable, plural erosions)
- (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 biofuels, made from crop wastes or wood, are an environmental disaster, either extending the cultivated area or removing the straw and stovers which protect the soil from erosion and keep carbon and 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, figuratively) 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.
- (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ?); see Erosion (morphology).
Derived terms
Related terms
- erode
Translations
Anagrams
- Reinoso
Basque
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /e.?o.s?i.on/
Verb
erosion
- Informal second-person singular feminine (hik), taking third-person singular (hari) as indirect object and third-person singular (hura) as direct object, present imperative form of erosi.
Friulian
Noun
erosion f (plural erosions)
- erosion
Interlingua
Noun
erosion (plural erosiones)
- erosion (shallow lesion or ulceration)
erosion From the web:
- what erosion means
- what erosion formed the grand canyon
- what erosion caused the grand canyon
- what erosional process formed the arches
- what erosion does to a mf
- what erosion made the grand canyon
- what erosion causes landslides
- what erosion and deposition
avulsion
English
Etymology
From Latin avulsio < a- +? vell?.
Noun
avulsion (countable and uncountable, plural avulsions)
- The loss or separation of a body part, either by surgery or due to trauma
- An abrupt change in the course of a river, typically from one channel to another
- (hydrology) Movement of soil during a flood, or during a change in the course of a river, especially when a resulting change of land ownership is involved
Related terms
- avulsive
Translations
Anagrams
- Luvianos
French
Noun
avulsion f (plural avulsions)
- avulsion
avulsion From the web:
- what avulsion means
- what's avulsion fractures
- what avulsion causes mallet finger
- what's avulsion injuries
- avulsion what kind of injury
- avulsion what does it means
- what is avulsion wound
- what is avulsion in real estate
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