Erosion vs Etching - What's the difference?
erosion | etching |
(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.
(lb) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
(lb) The image created by this process.
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*:"My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching ; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;."
As nouns the difference between erosion and etching
is that erosion is erosion while etching is (lb) the art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.As a verb etching is
.erosion
English
(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.