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PARCELLATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parcellation mean?
• PARCELLATION (noun)
The noun PARCELLATION has 1 sense:
1. the division into parcels
Familiarity information: PARCELLATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The division into parcels
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Context example:
the increasing parcellation of land with every generation
Hypernyms ("parcellation" is a kind of...):
division (the act or process of dividing)
Derivation:
parcel (make into a wrapped container)
parcel (divide into parts)
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