Alluviation

Domain	Definitions
Geography	Accumulation of sediment in a channel. Source: European Union. (references)
	The process of accumulating deposits of gravel, sand silt, or clay at places in rivers, lakes, or estuaries, where flow is retarded. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. The deposition or formation of alluvium or alluvial features (such as cones or fans) at places where stream velocity is decreased or streamflow is checked; the process of aggradation or of building up of sediments by a stream along its course, or of covering or filling a surface with alluvium b. A hydraulic effect on solids suspended in a current of water, whereby the coarsest and heaviest particles are the first to settle out, and the finest muds the last, as gradient or velocity of a stream is decrease. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Alluviation

Language		Translations for "alluviation"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		aflejring (accretion, aggradation, alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvion, alluvium, bedding, crud, deposit, deposition, drift, drop crater, droplet impaction, fluvial outwash, fouling, point deposit, precipitate, sediment, sedimentation, silting, spray coating, spray deposit). (various references)

Dutch		afzetting (accretion, amputation, cordon, cordoning off operation, deposit, Deposition, falling out of a solid within a liquid because of gravity, filling up with alluvium, impeachment, orebody, sediment, sedimentation, segregation, settling, silting, silting up), aanslibbing (accretion, aggradation, alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvion, alluvium, fluvial outwash, silting, silting up), verzanding (accretion, aggradation, silting), dichtslibbing (accretion, aggradation, silting). (various references)

Finnish		alluviaatio (filling up with alluvium, silting, silting up), maa-aineksen kerrostuminen (accretion, aggradation, silting), liettyminen (filling up with alluvium, silting, silting up). (various references)

French		atterrissement, alluvionnement (filling up with alluvium), engravement. (various references)

German		Auflandung (accretion, aggradation, enrichment of the soil with loam, silting, silting up), Anschwemmung (accumulation, alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvion, alluvium, filling up with alluvium, fluvial deposit, fluvial outwash, river deposit, silting, silting up), Verlandung (accretion, aggradation, silting). (various references)

Greek		πρόσχωσις (filling up with alluvium, silting, silting up), πρόσχωση (accretion, aggradation, aggrading, alluvium, bench, silting), απόθεσις ανάντη φράγματος (accretion, aggradation, silting). (various references)

Italian		alluvionamento (filling up with alluvium, silting, silting up), rinterro (accretion, aggradation, bridge, silting, silting up), interramento (accretion, aggradation, burial, entering the soil, sealing fertilizer in the soil, sealing fertilizer into the soil, silting), colmata (accretion, aggradation, back-filling, banking, embankment, fill, fill embankment, rock fill, silting, silting up). (various references)

Pig Latin		alluviationay

Portuguese		aluvionamento (filling up with alluvium, silting, silting up), aluviação (filling up with alluvium, silting, silting up), aluvião (accretion, aggradation, alluvial, alluvial deposit, alluvion, alluvium, deluge, flood, fluvial outwash, silt, silting, wash), colmatação (accretion, aggradation, silting). (various references)

Spanish		aterramiento (accretion, aggradation, silting, silting up), aluvionación (accretion, aggradation, silting), agradación (accretion, aggradation, silting), depósito (accretion, aggradation, barrel, bladder, bladder tank, bond, bosh, cistern, containment, deposit, depository, depot, down payment, escrow, foots, gas reservoir, kettle, Lido, morgue, ore body, orebody, payment on account, Pinfold, receiver, repository, reservoir, reservoir compound, reservoir species, retainer, sediment, sedimentation, silting, sink, stockroom, storage, store, storehouse, storeroom, submission, sump, tank, warehouse, warehousing, water bosh, water tank, yard). (various references)

Swedish		aggradation (accretion, aggradation, silting), sedimentation (accretion, deposit, filling up with alluvium, sediment, sedimentation, silting, silting up). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Alluviation

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-l-n-o-t-u-v"
	-2 letters: valuation.
	-3 letters: alluvion, aviation, illation, lavation.
	-4 letters: alation, alluvia, illuvia, invital, lanital, nautili, outlain, valiant, valonia, vanilla, villain, volutin.
	-5 letters: atonal, avaunt, latino, lintol, talion, valuta, violin, volant.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-l-n-o-t-u-v"
	+4 letters: circumvallation.
	+5 letters: circumvallations.
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