fluviation

Meanings

nounfluviation (usually uncountable, plural fluviations)

uncountableusuallygeographyDeposition of silt etc. by the action of a river or stream.
obsoleteuncountableusuallyPreparation of flax by soaking it in a stream.
This was the first preparation of Flax, and before fluviation or rotting.
1683, Thomas Browne, Certain Miscellany Tracts, page 54

From Latin fluviātiō, from fluviātus (“fluviated”) + -iō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”), from fluvius (“river”) + -ātus (“-ate: forming adjectives”) as if from a verb fluviō. Equivalent to fluviated + -ion.

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