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
- noun A formal agreement that resolves a dispute, often involving payment.
- noun A community of people who have established themselves in a new or previously unoccupied area.
subsidence — full definition
- noun The process of becoming less active or severe.
- 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.