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salinations

salinations is the plural of salination.

Meaning of salination

Noun

salination (countable and uncountable, plural salinations)

  1. A treatment with a salt solution.
  2. The increase of salt content in soil.
    • Such extension of control diminishes disturbances of the peace, stabilises and thus promotes agricultural industry, and puts a check on the exhaustion and salination of the soil.1929, Report by His Majesty’s Government in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Council of the League of Nations on the Administration of ‘Iraq for the year 1928, London...
  3. The increase of salt content in water.
    • It is evident […] that we ought to find every degree of salination of salt lakes.1884, Joseph Le Conte, A Compend of Geology, New York: Appleton, Part 1, Chapter 2, p. 71

Questions about salinations

What is salinations the plural of?
Salinations is the plural of salination.

Words near salinations in the dictionary

  1. salinate
  2. salinated
  3. salinates
  4. salinating
  5. salination
  6. salinations
  7. saline
  8. Saline County
  9. saline flush
  10. saline flushes
  11. saline solution

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