Usually means: Wearing away of earth, rock.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. erosion: Merriam-Webster
  2. erosion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. erosion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. erosion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. erosion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Erosion, erosion: Wordnik
  7. erosion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. erosion: Wiktionary
  9. erosion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. erosion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. erosion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. erosion: Dictionary.com
  13. erosion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. erosion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Erosion (dental), Erosion (dermatology), Erosion (dermatopathology), Erosion (disambiguation), Erosion (morphology), Erosion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Erosion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. erosion: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. erosion: Rhymezone
  19. Erosion (f), erosion, erosin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. erosion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. erosion: FreeDictionary.org
  22. erosion: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. erosion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. erosion: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. erosion: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Erosion: Health & Beauty Glossary

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. Erosion: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  4. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  5. erosion: Legal dictionary
  6. erosion: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. erosion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. erosion: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Erosion: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Erosion: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  6. Erosion (dental), erosion: Medical dictionary
  7. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  8. Erosion: Drug Medical Dictionary

Science (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Field Trip to Mars (No longer online)
  3. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  4. erosion: Dictionary of Geology
  5. erosion: Evolution Glossary
  6. erosion: Natural History Terms
  7. Weather Glossary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Erosion: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Erosion: BEACH-NET! (fishing)
  2. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)

Tech (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. UNDERSTANDING FORESTRY TERMS -- FOR PRIVATE LANDOWNERS (No longer online)
  3. Erosion: A to Z of Terms related to the Thermal Spray Process and Surface Engineering
  4. EROSION: NATURAL RESOURCE INVENTORY
  5. Glossary of Meteorology (No longer online)
  6. Glossary of Agricultural Terms, Programs and Laws (No longer online)
  7. Explosives (No longer online)
  8. erosion: Canadian Soil Information System
  9. Erosion: Beauty & Health Glossary
  10. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  11. Oil Analysis (No longer online)
  12. National Weather Service Glossary (No longer online)
  13. Schlumberger Oilfield Glossary (No longer online)
  14. Oil and Gas Well Drilling and Servicing eTool (No longer online)
  15. Water-Science Glossary of Terms (No longer online)
  16. Glossary of Water Resource Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See erosional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The result of having been worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
noun:  (uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
noun:  (uncountable, figurative) The gradual loss of something as a result of an ongoing process.
noun:  (uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
noun:  (mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.
noun:  (dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
noun:  (medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
noun:  (mathematics) In morphology, a basic operation (denoted ⊖); see Erosion (morphology).

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