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Alluvion Meaning & Definition
Alluvion Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Alluvion?

[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

Synonyms | Synonyms for Alluvion: 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

Alluvion In Webster's Dictionary

\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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