alluvium

  • 21Alluvium (peercasting) — Alluvium is open source peercasting software developed by the [http://www.decentralize.org/ Foundation for Decentralization Research] , first released in 2003. It comprises three components, Core , Media Player , and Server . Alluvium allows… …

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  • 22alluvium — noun (plural viums or alluvia) Etymology: Medieval Latin, alteration of Latin alluvio Date: circa 1656 clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar detrital material deposited by running water …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 23alluvium — (adjective alluvial) clay, silt, sand, gravel or other material deposited by running water. Often fossil bearing over time …

    Dictionary of ichthyology

  • 24alluvium — noun soil, clay, silt or gravel deposited by flowing water, as it slows, in a river bed, delta, estuary or flood plain …

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  • 25alluvium —   river deposits found either on the floodplain or historic point bars …

    Geography glossary

  • 26alluvium —    A general term for clay, silt, sand, gravel, or similar unconsolidated material deposited during comparatively recent geologic time by a stream or other body of running water as a sorted or semisorted sediment in the bed of the stream or on… …

    Lexicon of Cave and Karst Terminology

  • 27alluvium — Synonyms and related words: acres, alluvion, arable land, ash, cataclysm, cinder, clay, clinker, clod, crust, debris, deluge, deposit, deposition, deposits, detritus, diluvium, dirt, draff, dregs, drift, dross, dry land, dust, earth, ember,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 28Alluvium — Al|lu|vi|um 〈 [ vi ] n.; Gen.: s; Pl.: unz.; Geol.〉 = Holozän [Etym.: <lat. alluere »anspülen«] …

    Lexikalische Deutsches Wörterbuch

  • 29alluvium — al|lu|vi|um [əˈlu:viəm] n [U] [Date: 1600 1700; : Late Latin; Origin: Latin alluere, from ad against + lavare to wash ] soil left by rivers, lakes, floods etc …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 30alluvium — al|lu|vi|um [ ə luviəm ] noun count or uncount TECHNICAL dirt containing earth and sand left by rivers or floods …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English