单词 | atterration |
释义 | † atterrationn. Obsolete. The action of filling up with earth; the washing up of alluvial soil. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > formation of features > sedimentation > [noun] > alluviation atterration1686 alluviation1791 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iii. 113 All valleys rise by atterration i.e. by Earth continually brought down from the tops of mountains by rains and Snows. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. ii. v. 53 No accidental Currents and Atterrations of the Waters themselves..could ever have made or found so long and commodious Declivities and Channels. 1758 E. M. da Costa in Philos. Trans. 1757 (Royal Soc.) 50 235 Producible by local deluges, atterrations. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online December 2019). < n.1686 |
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