fluviation
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin fluviātiō, from fluviātus (“fluviated”) + -iō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from fluvius (“river”) + -ātus (“-ate: forming adjectives”) as if from a verb fluviō. Equivalent to fluviated + -ion.
Noun
editfluviation (usually uncountable, plural fluviations)
- (geology) Deposition of silt etc. by the action of a river or stream.
- (obsolete) Preparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
- 1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, page 54:
- This was the first preparation of Flax, and before fluviation or rotting.
References
edit- “† fluviation, n.”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 2023.