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fluviations

fluviations is the plural of fluviation.

Meaning of fluviation

Noun

fluviation (usually uncountable, plural fluviations)

  1. (usually) Deposition of silt etc. by the action of a river or stream.
  2. (obsolete, usually) Preparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
    • This was the first preparation of Flax, and before fluviation or rotting.1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, page 54

Questions about fluviations

What is fluviations the plural of?
Fluviations is the plural of fluviation.

Words near fluviations in the dictionary

  1. fluviarchy
  2. fluviated
  3. fluviatic
  4. fluviatile
  5. fluviation
  6. fluviations
  7. fluvic
  8. fluvio-
  9. fluvio-deltaic
  10. fluviodeltaic
  11. fluvioeolian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: fluviations (page history and authors); fluviation (page history and authors). 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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