canalisation
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkænələˈzeɪʃən/
Noun
canalisation (usually uncountable, plural canalisations)
- The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
- 1857, Charles Lamb Kenney, The Gates of the East: Ten Chapters on the Isthmus of Suez Canal, page 18:
- The whole of the soil of the isthmus is admirably adapted for the labours of canalisation.
- The management of something using defined channels of communication.
- (genetics) The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.
Derived terms
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ka.na.li.za.sjɔ̃/
Audio: (file) - Homophone: canalisations
- Rhymes: -jɔ̃
Noun
canalisation f (plural canalisations)
- (often in the plural) pipe
- channeling
Descendants
- → Belarusian: каналіза́цыя (kanalizácyja)
- → Polish: kanalizacja
- → Russian: канализа́ция (kanalizácija)
- → Turkish: kanalizasyon
- → Ukrainian: каналіза́ція (kanalizácija)
Further reading
- “canalisation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.