siltation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.91 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation."
- "The roster of perils includes, but is not limited to: overfishing, which promotes the growth of algae that compete with corals; agricultural runoff, which also encourages algae growth; deforestation, which leads to siltation and reduces water clarity; and dynamite fishing, whose destructive potential would seem to be self-explanatory."
Etymology
From silt + -ation.