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Senkung — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • settlement noun A formal agreement that resolves a dispute, often involving payment.
  • subsidence noun The process of becoming less active or severe.

Senses

Senkung is used for these senses in English:

  • settlement (architecture) The gradual sinking of a building. Fractures or dislocations caused by settlement.
  • subsidence (geology) A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.

settlement — full definition

  1. noun A formal agreement that resolves a dispute, often involving payment.
  2. noun A community of people who have established themselves in a new or previously unoccupied area.

subsidence — full definition

  1. noun The process of becoming less active or severe.
  2. noun A sinking of something to a lower level, especially of part of the surface of the Earth due to underground excavation, seismic activity or underground or ground water depletion, or the rocks in a geological basin, due to continued deposition from above.

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