canalisation

plural canalisations · alternative canalization

1. uncountableusuallyThe conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.

   The whole of the soil of the isthmus is admirably adapted for the labours of canalisation.

   1857, Charles Lamb Kenney, The Gates of the East: Ten Chapters on the Isthmus of Suez Canal, page 18

2. uncountableusuallyThe management of something using defined channels of communication.
3. uncountableusuallybiologyThe ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.