corrivation

English

Etymology

From Latin corrivatio.

Noun

corrivation (countable and uncountable, plural corrivations)

1. (obsolete) The flowing of different streams into one.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:

     […] and so likewise about corrivations of water to moisten and refresh barren grounds, to drain fens, bogs, and moors.

2. The concentration of waters from a watershed to a remote outlet.

Translations

concentration of waters

Italian: corrivazione (it) f