noun. The group of natural processes, including weathering, dissolution, abrasion, corrosion, and transportation, by which material is worn away from the earth's surface.

noun. The process of eroding or the condition of being eroded.

noun. The act or operation of eating or gnawing away.

noun. Hence The act of wearing away by any means.

noun. In zoology, the abrasion or wearing away of a surface or margin, as if by gnawing; the state of being erose; the act of eroding.

noun. In geology, the wearing away of rocks by water and other agencies of geological change.

noun. The state of being eaten or worn away; corrosion; canker; ulceration.

noun. The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

noun. The state of being eaten away; corrosion; canker.

noun. The wearing away of the earth's surface by any natural process. The chief agent of erosion is running water; minor agents are glaciers, the wind, and waves breaking against the coast.

noun. a gradual reduction or lessening as if by an erosive force.

noun. The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.

noun. The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.

noun. Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.

noun. One of two fundamental operations in morphological image processing from which all other morphological operations are derived.

noun. Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.

noun. A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.

noun. a gradual decline of something

noun. erosion by chemical action

noun. (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

noun. condition in which the earth's surface is worn away by the action of water and wind

"Under the term erosion I include the action of water, of ice, and of the atmosphere, including frost and rain."

cycle of erosion  erosion column  erosion theory  glacial erosion  head erosion  

erosional  erosive  sheet erosion  splash erosion  

decline  diminution  environmental condition  

corrosion  explosion  implosion  

abrasion  accumulation  attrition  buildup  contamination  

ablation  abrading  abrasion  abrasive  absorption