canalisation
IPA: kʌnˈæɫʌzˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.
- 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.
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Examples of "canalisation" in Sentences
- They are diminishing because of the dams and the canalisation of the Missisippi.
- Many of our rivers have been changed forever by canalisation, by the encroachment of roads, by invasion by alien vegetation.
- The first has been the canalisation, the fencing in of the tideways; the second has been the banking out of the general sea.
- A scientific canalisation, with irrigation works inherited from the ancients, made the Mesopotamian Valley a rival of Kemi the Black
- There had been fine schemes, no doubt -- Rome a seaport, gigantic works, canalisation to enable vessels of heavy tonnage to come up to the
- The canalisation of rivers, dams and dykes, combined with urbanisation, deforestation and wetland drainage, dramatically increased the destructive potential of floods, he said.
- If we suppose that some of the ˜pegs™ in Waddington's model are environmental factors, rather than genetic loci, then we can define separate notions of ˜environmental canalisation™ and ˜genetic canalisation™.
- I suggest that without the additional resources offered by the concept of adaptation Khalidi's concept of ˜information™ would collapse into a simple notion of covariance, and his analysis of innateness would be a version of the canalisation analysis discussed in the next section.
- Beginning with the straightening of the beds of old rivers and narrow channels connecting seas, the canals were then constructed where they were most needed; but as time passed on, and our water supply from rainfall became less and less, we were convinced of the necessity of adopting a complete system of canalisation in anticipation of the time when our polar snows would be our only source of supply.
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