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PLANATION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does planation mean?
• PLANATION (noun)
The noun PLANATION has 1 sense:
1. the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced
Familiarity information: PLANATION used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("planation" is a kind of...):
eating away; eroding; erosion; wearing; wearing away ((geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it))
Derivation:
plane (make even or smooth, with or as with a carpenter's plane)
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