canalisation
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canalisation (usually uncountable, plural canalisations)
- The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
- 1857, Charles Lamb Kenney, The Gates of the East: Ten Chapters on the Isthmus of Suez Canal, page 18:
- The whole of the soil of the isthmus is admirably adapted for the labours of canalisation.
- The management of something using defined channels of communication.
- (genetics) The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.
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canalisation f (plural canalisations)
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- → Turkish: kanalizasyon
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- “canalisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.