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n. The process of eroding or the condition of being eroded: erosion of the beach; progressive erosion of confidence in our legal system; erosion of the value of the dollar abroad.

n. The group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface.

n. The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.

n. The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.

n. Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.

n. One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.

n. Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.

n. A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.

n. The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

n. The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

n. 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.

n. a gradual reduction or lessening as if by an erosive force.

n. The act or operation of eating or gnawing away.

n. Hence The act of wearing away by any means.

n. In zoology, the abrasion or wearing away of a surface or margin, as if by gnawing; the state of being erose; the act of eroding.

n. In geology, the wearing away of rocks by water and other agencies of geological change.

n. The state of being eaten or worn away; corrosion; canker; ulceration.

n. a gradual decline of something

n. erosion by chemical action

n. (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

n. condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind

"Under the term erosion I include the action of water, of ice, and of the atmosphere, including frost and rain."

diminution    decline    environmental condition   

head-water erosion    erosion column    head erosion    glacial erosion    retrogressive erosion    cycle of erosion    table-land of erosion    sheet-flood erosion    wind-erosion    erosion theory   

sheet erosion    erosional    erosive    splash erosion   

corrosion    canker    destruction    eating    consumption    denudation    fret    eolation    washout    water gall   

corrosion    explosion    implosion   

deterioration    corrosion    denudation    runoff    pollution    attrition    depletion    degradation    buildup    abrasion