corrosion

See also: corrosión

English

Etymology

From Middle English corrosioun, from Old French corrosion, or its source, Late Latin corrōsiōnem, accusative singular of corrōsiō (“gnawing away, corroding”), from Latin corrōdō (“gnaw away, corrode”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹəʊʒən/

• Audio (southern England)

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• (US) IPA^(key): /kəˈɹoʊʒən/

Noun

corrosion (countable and uncountable, plural corrosions)

1. The act of corroding or the condition so produced.
2. A substance (such as rust) so formed.
3. (chemistry) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
4. (by extension) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.

   the corrosion of values

Derived terms

• pitting corrosion

Related terms

• corrosible

Translations

The act of corroding

• Bulgarian: корозия (bg) (korozija)
• Catalan: corrosió f
• Finnish: syövytys (fi)
• French: corrosion (fr) f
• Galician: corrosión f
• Georgian: კოროზია (ḳorozia), დაჟანგვა (dažangva)
• Gothic: 𐌽𐌹𐌳𐍅𐌰 f (nidwa)
• Greek: διάβρωση (el) f (diávrosi)
• Hungarian: korrózió (hu)
• Malayalam: ലോഹനാശനം (ml) (lōhanāśanaṃ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korrosjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: korrosjon m

• Portuguese: corrosão (pt) f
• Spanish: corrosión (es) f
• Swedish: frätning (sv) c, korrosion (sv) c

Erosion by chemical action

• Bulgarian: разяждане (bg) (razjaždane)
• Catalan: corrosió f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 腐蝕 (zh), 腐蚀 (zh) (fǔshí)

• Czech: koroze (cs) f
• Finnish: syöpyminen (fi), korroosio (fi)
• French: corrosion (fr) f
• Georgian: კოროზია (ḳorozia), დაჟანგვა (dažangva)
• Greek: διάβρωση (el) f (diávrosi)
• Hungarian: korrózió (hu)
• Japanese: 腐食 (ja) (ふしょく, fushoku)
• Kazakh: жегіде (jegıde)
• Korean: 부식(腐蝕) (ko) (busik)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: korrosjon (no) m

  Nynorsk: korrosjon m

• Polish: korozja (pl) f
• Portuguese: corrosão (pt) f
• Spanish: corrosión (es) f

The gradual destruction or undermining of something

• Bulgarian: разлагане (bg) (razlagane)
• Catalan: corrosió f
• Finnish: nakertaminen (fi), horjuttaminen
• Greek: διάβρωση (el) f (diávrosi), φθορά (el) f (fthorá), αποσάθρωση (el) f (aposáthrosi)
• Hungarian: korrózió (hu)
• Portuguese: corrosão (pt) f
• Sanskrit: क्षय (sa) m (kṣaya)
• Spanish: corrosión (es) f

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Translations to be checked

• Georgian: ^{(please verify)} კოროზია (ḳorozia)
• German: ^{(please verify)} Korrosion (de) f
• Italian: ^{(please verify)} corrosione (it) f
• Latin: ^{(please verify)} corrosio f
• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} coroziune (ro) f
• Serbo-Croatian: ^{(please verify)} корозија f, ^{(please verify)} korozija (sh) f

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin corrōsiōnem, accusative singular of corrōsiō (“gnawing away, corroding”), from Latin corrōdō (“gnaw away, corrode”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ.ʁɔ.zjɔ̃/

• Audio

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Noun

corrosion f (plural corrosions)

1. corrosion

Further reading

• “corrosion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Old French

Etymology

From Late Latin corrōsiōnem, from Latin corrōdō (“gnaw away, corrode”).

Noun

corrosion f (oblique plural corrosions, nominative singular corrosion, nominative plural corrosions)

1. corrosion
   • 1377, Bernard de Gordon, Fleur de lis de medecine (a.k.a. lilium medicine):

     corrosion qui est du cartilage qui est entre les trous des nazilles

     corrosion which is of the cartilage between the wholes in the nostrils