Meaning of ALLUVION
| Pronunciation: | | u'looveeun
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- [n] clay or slit or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down
- [n] the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land; "plains fertilized by annual inundations"1
- [n] gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment
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| | Synonyms: | | alluvial deposit, alluvial sediment, alluvium, deluge, flood, inundation |
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| | See Also: | | alluvial soil, debacle, deposit, flash flood, flashflood, geological phenomenon, geological process, placer, sediment | |
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| | Definition: | | \Al*lu"vi*on\, n. [F. alluvion, L. alluvio, fr. alluere
to wash against; ad + luere, equiv. to lavare, to wash. See
{Lave}.]
1. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.
2. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood. --Lyell.
3. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing
water; alluvium.
The golden alluvions are there [in California and
Australia] spread over a far wider space: they are
found not only on the banks of rivers, and in their
beds, but are scattered over the surface of vast
plains. --R. Cobden.
4. (Law) An accession of land gradually washed to the shore
or bank by the flowing of water. See {Accretion}.
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