Corrode vs Erosion - What's the difference?
corrode | erosion |
To eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.
To consume; to wear away; to prey upon; to impair.
To have corrosive action; to be subject to corrosion.
(uncountable) The result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.
* 2012 , (George Monbiot), (Guardian Weekly) , August 24, p.20
(uncountable) The changing of a surface by mechanical action, friction, thermal expansion contraction, or impact.
(uncountable) Destruction by abrasive action of fluids.
(mathematics, image processing) One of two fundamental operations in (morphological image processing) from which all other morphological operations are derived.
(dentistry) Loss of tooth enamel due to non-bacteriogenic chemical processes.
(medicine) A shallow ulceration or lesion, usually involving skin or epithelial tissue.
As a verb corrode
is to eat away by degrees; to wear away or diminish by gradually separating or destroying small particles of, as by action of a strong acid or a caustic alkali.As a noun erosion is
the result of having been being worn away or eroded, as by a glacier on rock or the sea on a cliff face.corrode
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* (to eat away by degrees ): canker, gnaw, rust, waste, wearerosion
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(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.
