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| rolling; tractor rolling | |||
| packing; tamping | |||
| defragmentation | |||
| to settle; settlement (of earth); settlements; slump (at the slump test) | |||
| soil settling; soil compaction; soil settling Compaction involves the close-packing of the individual grains mainly by the elimination of pore-space and expulsion of entrapped water; this is normally brought about by the weight of the overlying sediments | |||
| shake-out; leveling-off; shakeout of the market | |||
| leveling off | |||
| battering; beating-in; beating-up | |||
| upward relocation | |||
| compacting | |||
| compaction; settling; subsidence | |||
| sinking | |||
| building-up; gravitational compaction; down warping (d'une couche) | |||
| crushing; flattening | |||
| compressing | |||
| consolidation; settlement | |||
| tassement: 113 phrases in 24 subjects |