Phrase Hound found 8 phrases and 9 compound words that contain erosion. The most common are listed below. Open erosion in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 8
- Soil Erosion
- Erosion Control
- phonetic erosionThe loss of phonemes from a spoken word (or of words in a phrase) over time, sometimes as a result of grammaticalization.
- sheet erosionrelatively even erosion of a layer of soil without channel formation; generally takes place on sloping land
- trademark erosionThe situation that occurs when a trademarked name becomes a generic name through constant use.
- rill erosionerosion of soft ground caused by drainage of rain.
- mechanical erosionThe physical breakdown and removal of rock and soil by natural forces like wind, water (rivers, waves), ice (glaciers), and temperature changes; agents physically abrade, shatter, or dislodge material, transporting it elsewhere, with …
- accelerated erosionsoil erosion occurring at a rate much faster than soil horizons can be formed from the parent regolith.
Compound words 9
- antierosionCountering erosion.
- bioerosionalRelating to bioerosion.
- electroerosionA fabrication process that uses electrical discharge machining
- circumerosionerosion around something so as to leave it exposed
- erosionproofresistant to erosion
- microerosionVery small-scale erosion
- nonerosionNot of or pertaining to erosion.
- bioerosionThe erosion of undersea rock or coral reefs by mollusks and other organisms.
- thermoerosionThermal erosion; erosion due to things like nivation (freezing and thawing).