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Webster 1913 Edition


Corrasion

Cor-ra′sion

(k?r-r?′zh?n)
,
Noun.
[See
Corrade
.]
(Geol.)
The erosion of the bed of a stream by running water, principally by attrition of the detritus carried along by the stream, but also by the solvent action of the water.