Canalisation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal. The management of something using defined channels of communication. The ability of a genotype to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment.
Channelization
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The reconstruction of a natural waterway so as to flow in a different path; canalizationThe division of a wide-band communications channel into multiple narrow-band channels