noun. undefined

noun. The flow of water against a shore or bank.

noun. Inundation by water; flood.

noun. The increasing of land area along a shore by deposited alluvium or by the recession of water.

noun. Formerly— The wash of the sea against the shore, or of a river against its banks.

noun. The material deposited by seas or rivers; alluvium (which see).

noun. In modern legal use, an increase of land on a shore or a river-bank by the action of water, as by a current or by waves, whether from natural or from artificial causes.

noun. Wash or flow of water against the shore or bank.

noun. An overflowing; an inundation; a flood.

noun. Matter deposited by an inundation or the action of flowing water; alluvium.

noun. An accession of land gradually washed to the shore or bank by the flowing of water. See Accretion.

noun. The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river.

noun. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land

noun. clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down

noun. gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment

"The accessions, which are made to land, bordering upon rivers, follow the land, say the civilians, provided it be made by what they call alluvion, that is, insensibly and imperceptibly; which are circumstances, that assist the imagination in the conjunction."

accession  

geologic process  geological process  

alluvium  clays  diluvian  diluvium  flume  

alluvium  flood  inundation  overflowing  

accretion