Erosion vs Landslide - What's the difference?
erosion | landslide |
(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.
A natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.
A vote won by a wide or overwhelming majority.
As nouns the difference between erosion and landslide
is that 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 while landslide is a natural disaster that involves the breakup and downhill flow of rock, mud, water and anything caught in the path.erosion
English
(wikipedia erosion)Noun
(en noun)- Even second-generation in the ground.
Derived terms
* erosive * erosional * sheet erosion * splash erosionlandslide
English
(wikipedia landslide)Noun
(en noun)- The candidate won by a landslide .
