Alluvion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See alluvium.
  • n. The flow of water against a shore or bank.
  • n. Inundation by water; flood.
  • n. Law The increasing of land area along a shore by deposited alluvium or by the recession of water.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
  • n. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.
  • n. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.
  • n. An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Formerly— The wash of the sea against the shore, or of a river against its banks.
  • n. The material deposited by seas or rivers; alluvium (which see).
  • n. In modern legal use, an increase of land on a shore or a river-bank by the action of water, as by a current or by waves, whether from natural or from artificial causes.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land
  • n. clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
  • n. gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
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    Cross Reference
    accession   
    Variant
    accretion   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    overflowing    inundation    flood    alluvium   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    diluvium    diluvian    qanat    clays    searchings    alluvium    foreshore    flume    viaduct