easement
UK /ˈiːzm(ə)nt/ · US /ˈizmənt/ noun
Forms easements
- noun (law, property law) An interest in land which grants the legal right to use another person's real property (real estate), generally in order to cross a part of the property or to gain access to something on the property (right of way). “The power company has an easement to put their electricity poles along the edge of this land.”
- noun (architecture) An element such as a baseboard, handrail, etc., that is curved instead of abruptly changing direction.
- noun (archaic) Easing; relief; assistance; support.
- noun (archaic, euphemistic) The act of relieving oneself: defecating or urinating.
- noun (model railroading) Transition spiral curve track between a straight or tangent track and a circular curved track of a certain radius or selected radius.
- noun Gratification.
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Etymology
From Anglo-Norman aisement, easement, eisement, esament, esement, and Middle French aisement (“comfort, convenience, ease, facility, opportunity; a benefit, relief; a right to use land, a thing, etc.; a privy”), from aisier (“to put at ease; to facilitate”) + -ment (“-ment, suffix forming nouns, usually the action or state resulting from verbs”).
Webster’s 1913
- noun That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
- noun A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude. Kent.
Etymology [OF. aisement. See Ease, n.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “easement”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details