Word: escapement
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: es
cape
ment
Definition: The number of fish that escape commercial fishing operations and travel upstream to spawn.
Morphemes:
Affix: escape
Language: en
PoS: Noun
Meaning: Something that has escaped; an escapee.
Affix: -ment
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from verbs, the nouns having the sense of "the action or result of what is denoted by the verb".
Etymology Compounds: Affix: -ment
Language: fro
Decoded: -ment
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form nouns from verbs, usually of action or state resulting of them. Equivalent to the English -ment.