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PLANATION
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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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