Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The process of erosion and deposition in which a nearly level surface is produced, as by streams, wind, or ocean currents.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of planing or making plane or flat; specifically, in geology, the erosive process by which a stream or a glacier produces a nearly level surface; also the result of erosive processes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geology The formation of a flat surface by
erosion anddeposition . - noun biology The
morphological transformation of a three-dimensional structure into a two-dimensional one throughdevelopment orevolution .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word planation.
Examples
-
Every planation in the South that "owned" slaves was a concentration camp.
-
The problem is Rice left the ideological planation and progressofacists can get nasty.
-
But that memory has suppressed the suffering caused by the Civil War and promoted the mythological life of antebellum planation owners.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
-
But now the "massas" in the DNC want to put us back on the planation (back to ominous music, unflattering pictures of Hillary Clinton).
-
But that memory has suppressed the suffering caused by the Civil War and promoted the mythological life of antebellum planation owners.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting... 2009
-
One type is the non-karst landformss, which consist of low, round-top mountains with planation surfaces and abrasion-accumulation terraces along the valleys of the Son and Chay rivers and at the margins of the central limestone massif.
-
Bishop, here is your simple explanation or, if you like, "x-planation!"...sorry for Wolverine being all over the place:
Thoughts on Joe Quesada’s One More Day Interviews | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008
-
Tertiary planation greatly subdued the topography of the Folded Belt, resulting in a fairly level basin, which is broken by the wide, deep valleys of the Fish, Sundays, and Gamtoos rivers.
Albany thickets 2008
-
Extensive pine planation on the rolling terrain of the Southeastern Plains and Hills ecoregion (65e) within the Conecuh River basin, Alabama.
-
The word ndmiration, my lord, may require ex-planation.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.