erosion
侵蚀,冲蚀,侵蚀作用,腐蚀
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- : the act or state of eroding; state of being eroded.
- : the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the action of water, glaciers, winds, waves, etc.
- : the gradual decline or disintegration of something: Each candidate is blaming the other’s party for the erosion of international trade.
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More than $40 trillion of retirement savings is at risk of erosion if inflation returns.
A ProPublica-Texas Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished.
A ProPublica-Tribune investigation found that the Rio Grande Valley project suffered from major erosion just months after it was finished.
The research team examined 10,276 individual valleys found in 66 valley networks on Mars, using custom-built algorithms to group them and infer what kind of erosion processes formed them.
Additionally, over the last 20 million years, the building of the Himalayas, Andes, Alps and other mountains has more than doubled erosion rates, boosting weathering.
Focus on the gays—not on the economy, the erosion of civil society, or the lack of democracy.
The more socially conservative libertarian-conservatives worry about family cohesion and erosion of religious belief.
And the health law might not prohibit it, opening a door to potential erosion of employer-based coverage.
While not as bad as some environmentalists have expected, there is beach erosion.
The result is a continual erosion of the business—fewer subscriptions sold, fewer print ads sold, even as costs rise annually.
Nowhere perhaps has the great water of bygone aeons wrought more grotesquely and fantastically than in the Moqui basin.