PLANATION

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("planation" is a kind of...):

eating away; eroding; erosion; wearing; wearing away ((geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it))

Derivation:

plane (make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane)

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