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siltations

siltations is the plural of siltation.

Meaning of siltation

Noun

siltation (usually uncountable, plural siltations)

  1. (usually) The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
    • They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation.2009 March 20, Somini Sengupta, “In Silt, Bangladesh Sees Potential Shield Against Sea Level Rise”, in New York Times

Questions about siltations

What is siltations the plural of?
Siltations is the plural of siltation.

Words near siltations in the dictionary

  1. Silsoe
  2. silt
  3. silt up
  4. siltage
  5. siltation
  6. siltations
  7. siltbush
  8. silted
  9. silted up
  10. silthiofam
  11. siltier

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Adapted from Wiktionary: siltations (page history and authors); siltation (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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