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corrosion

/kəˈɹəʊʒən/US/kəˈɹoʊʒən/

corrosion noun: the act of corroding or the condition so produced.

corrosion: the act of corroding or the condition so produced
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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. (physical) Erosion by chemical action, especially oxidation.
  4. (broadly) The gradual destruction or undermining of something.
    • the corrosion of values

corrosion meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

corrosion in Hindi

क्षरण

corrosion in Urdu

زنگ

corrosion in Bengali

ক্ষয়, মরিচা ধরার প্রক্রিয়া

corrosion in Malayalam

The act of corroding
ലോഹനാശനം lōhanāśanaṁ
More languagesFewer languages
corrosion in Kannada
ಕ್ಷಯ kṣaya
corrosion in Gujarati
કાટ, કાટ લગાડવો
corrosion in Sanskrit
क्षय kṣaya
corrosion in Arabic
تَأَكُّل taʔakkul

Examples of corrosion in a sentence

  • This type of fastener is resistant to corrosion.
  • We then galvanize the steel so that the zinc coating will sacrificially take the corrosion for many years.
  • The fracture had been caused by fatigue initiated by corrosion pitting on the axle surface.

All 34 example sentences with corrosion

Forms of corrosion

pluralcorrosions

Origin of corrosion

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”).

Words formed from corrosion

Questions about corrosion

What does corrosion mean?
Corrosion means the act of corroding or the condition so produced.
What is corrosion in Hindi?
Corrosion in Hindi is क्षरण. See Corrosion meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is corrosion?
Corrosion is a noun.
How do you pronounce corrosion?
Corrosion is pronounced /kəˈɹəʊʒən/ (UK).
What is the plural of corrosion?
The plural of corrosion is corrosions.

Words near corrosion in the dictionary

  1. Corrong
  2. Corros
  3. corrosibilities
  4. corrosibility
  5. corrosible
  6. corrosion
  7. corrosional
  8. corrosionproof
  9. corrosions
  10. corrosive
  11. corrosive sublimate

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: corrosion (page history and authors); corrosion (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); corrosion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); corrosion (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಕ್ಷಯ (Kannada) (page history and authors); corrosion (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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