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Answer for the clue "The production of a canal or a conversion to canals ", 12 letters:
canalisation

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the production of a canal or a conversion to canals [syn: canalization ] management through specified channels of communication [syn: channelization , channelisation , canalization ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Canalisation (or canalization ) is a measure of the ability of a population to produce the same phenotype regardless of variability of its environment or genotype . In other words, it means robustness. The term canalisation was coined by C. H. Waddington ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The conversion of a river or other waterway to a canal.

Usage examples of canalisation.

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground.

Subjection of Nature's forces to man, machinery, application of chemistry to industry and agriculture, steam-navigation, railways, electric telegraphs, clearing of whole continents for cultivation, canalisation of rivers, whole populations conjured out of the ground -- what earlier century had even a presentiment that such productive forces slumbered in the lap of social labour?