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Alluvion

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The increase in the area of land due to the deposition of sediment (alluvium) by a river. countable, uncountable

    "It was Settled at that period, that alluvions must belong to the riparious owner, according to this natural maxim, that the profit belongs to him who is exposed to suffer the damage, with which riparious property is threatened, no more than any other."

  2. 2
    clay or silt or gravel carried by rushing streams and deposited where the stream slows down wordnet
  3. 3
    the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land wordnet
  4. 4
    gradual formation of new land, by recession of the sea or deposit of sediment wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin alluviĊ.

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