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Definition of Corrasive
1. a. Corrosive.
Definition of Corrasive
1. Adjective. (obsolete form of corrosive) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Corrasive
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Corrasive
Literary usage of Corrasive
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Text-book of Geology for Use in Universities: Colleges, Schools of Science by Louis Valentine Pirsson, Charles Schuchert (1920)
"Swiftness; Law of corrasive Power. — It is quite obvious from the preceding
paragraph that other things being equal, the swifter a current is the more ..."
2. The University Geological Survey of Kansas by Erasmus Haworth, Kansas Geological Survey (1896)
"This in turn has given greater corrasive power to the various little streams
rising in the territory, which in turn have chiseled deep gulches on every side ..."
3. The Scientific Study of Scenery by John Edward Marr (1900)
"... or which, having once reached it, have been subjected to some change which
has restored the corrasive power of the streams over parts of their courses. ..."
4. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"... its bottom there also being determined by the Tyne bottom limestone ; but it
has been cut into by the High Cup stream having a greater corrasive power, ..."
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