See also: Irrigation

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Sprinklers' function is irrigating vine plants in a vineyard

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Borrowed from Middle French irrigation, from Latin irrigatio.

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  • IPA(key): /ˌɪɹəˈɡeɪʃən/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʃən

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irrigation (countable and uncountable, plural irrigations)

  1. The act or process of irrigating, or the state of being irrigated; especially, the operation of causing water to flow over lands, for nourishing plants.
    • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, in Lord Stranleigh Abroad[1]:
      “My father had ideas about conservation long before the United States took it up. [] You preserve water in times of flood and freshet to be used for power or for irrigation throughout the year. …”

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Borrowed from Latin irrigātiōnem.

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irrigation f (plural irrigations)

  1. irrigation

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