Erosion vs Degeneration - What's the difference?
erosion | degeneration |
(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.
(uncountable) The process or state of growing worse, or the state of having become worse.
* 1913, B. H. Carrol, An Interpretation of the English Bible ,
(uncountable) That condition of a tissue or an organ in which its vitality has become either diminished or perverted; a substitution of a lower for a higher form of structure.
(uncountable) Gradual deterioration, from natural causes, of any class of animals or plants or any particular organ or organs; hereditary degradation of type.
(countable) A thing that has degenerated.
* Sir Thomas Browne
As nouns the difference between erosion and degeneration
is that erosion is erosion while degeneration is degeneration, morbidity.erosion
English
(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.
Derived terms
* erosive * erosional * sheet erosion * splash erosiondegeneration
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The modern cry of "more liberty and less creed" is a degeneration from a vertebrate to a jellyfish.
- fatty degeneration of the liver
- cockle, aracus, and other degenerations