different between erosion vs gabion

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)

1. (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.

   • 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.

2. (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
3. (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
4. (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
5. (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
6. (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
7. (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
8. (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

1. 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)

1. erosion

Interlingua

Noun

erosion (plural erosiones)

1. erosion (shallow lesion or ulceration)

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian gabbione, augmentative of gabbia (“cage”), itself from Latin cavea.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.b??n/

Noun

gabion (plural gabions)

1. (historical, military) A cylindrical basket or cage of wicker which was filled with earth or stones and used in fortifications and other engineering work (a precursor to the sandbag).
   • 1563, Ambroise Paré, The Journey to Havre de Grace.

2. A woven wire mesh unit, sometimes rectangular, made from a continuous mesh panel and filled with stones sometimes coated with polyvinyl chloride.
3. (civil engineering) A porous metal cylinder filled with stones and used in a variety of civil engineering contexts, especially in the construction of retaining walls, the reinforcing of steep slopes, or in the prevention of erosion in river banks.
4. A knickknack, objet d'art, curiosity, collectable.

   Reliquiae Trotcosienses: Or, the Gabions of the Late Jonathan Oldbuck Esq. of Monkbarns — title of unfinished novel by Walter Scott.

   • 1774, James Cant, introduction, The Muses Threnodie p. vi, quoted in 2004, Walter Scott Reliquiae Trotcosiensis, Edinburgh University Press, p.6,

Derived terms

• gabion wall

Related terms

• gabioned

See also

• sap — several mentions of gabions in the context of fortifications

Further reading

• gabion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Gabino, bagnio