ERODING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eroding mean? 

• ERODING (noun)
  The noun ERODING has 1 sense:

1. (geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

  Familiarity information: ERODING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERODING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(geology) the mechanical process of wearing or grinding something down (as by particles washing over it)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Synonyms:

eating away; eroding; erosion; wearing; wearing away

Hypernyms ("eroding" is a kind of...):

geologic process; geological process ((geology) a natural process whereby geological features are modified)

Domain category:

geology (a science that deals with the history of the earth as recorded in rocks)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "eroding"):

chatter mark (marks on a glaciated rock caused by the movement of a glacier)

ablation (the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers)

abrasion; attrition; corrasion; detrition (erosion by friction)

beach erosion (the erosion of beaches)

deflation ((geology) the erosion of soil as a consequence of sand and dust and loose rocks being removed by the wind)

planation (the process of erosion whereby a level surface is produced)

soil erosion (the washing away of soil by the flow of water)

Derivation:

erode (remove soil or rock)

 Context examples 

This is likely the result of intense starlight breaking up atmospheric molecules and eroding away the atmospheres of some planets over time, leaving behind two populations.

(Citizen Scientists Find New World with NASA Telescope, NASA)

Researchers using NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) have found eight sites where thick deposits of ice beneath Mars' surface are exposed in faces of eroding slopes.

(Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice, NASA)

Neurofibromas can become quite large, causing a major disfigurement, eroding bone, and compressing various peripheral nerve structures.

(Neurofibromatosis type 1, NCI Thesaurus)

An example is the protozoan Halofolliculina corallasia, which causes skeletal eroding band disease.

(Plastic debris linked to coral disease, death, SciDev.Net)

The first reports of formative gullies on Mars in 2000 generated excitement and headlines because they suggested the presence of liquid water on the Red Planet, the eroding action of which forms gullies here on Earth.

(NASA spacecraft observes further evidence of dry ice gullies on Mars, NASA)