canalization
Americannoun
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the formation of canals; the act of canalizing.
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Biology. the development of an organism along relatively predictable pathways despite abnormality or injury.
Etymology
Origin of canalization
Example Sentences
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Among these and other design principles highlighted in the new paper, Kadelka says one of the most abundant is "canalization."
From Science Daily ● Jan. 23, 2024
In 1933 he put on a personal promotion campaign for canalization of the Trinity by piloting a skiff from Dallas to the Chicago World's Fair.
From Time Magazine Archive
With the Hwang ho confined to its channel, the adjacent low lands can be better drained by canalization and freed from the accumulating saline deposits which are rendering them sterile.
From Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan by F. H. (Franklin Hiram) King
For example, the canalization of Mesopotamia gives us the ancient pre-Semitic Babylonian state, while the extremely ancient Egyptian civilization rests upon the application of the Nile to agriculture.
From Essays on the Materialistic Conception of History by Antonio Labriola
Again, a proper canalization would, by draining, reclaim for cultivation vast swamps and marshes in North as well as South Germany.
From Woman under socialism by Daniel De Leon
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