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siltation

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Definitions

  1. The (typically undesirable) increase in concentration and or of deposition of water-borne silt in a body of water.

Word origin

From silt + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • They are also heavily engineered upstream: a dam built upstream in neighboring India can critically stanch the flow of freshwater down here, increasingly the chances of salinity and siltation.

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