incavations
incavations is the plural of incavation.
Meaning of incavation
Noun (1)
incavation (countable and uncountable, plural incavations)
- The act of making hollow.
- For, the chief Difference betwixt a Fluid, and a Soft body, accepted in a Philosophical or præcise, not a Poetical or random sense, consisteth only in this; that the Fluid, when prest upon, doth yield to the body pressing, not by indentment or incavation of it superfice, i.e. the retrocession of...1654, Walter Charleton, Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana, page 326
- The act of caving in.
- A case or curb to be used to prevent incavation in sinking wells and boring into loose ground1834, American state papers: documents, legislative and executive of the Congress of the United States, page 136
- A hollow; a physical depression; a concavity.
- This lip is in fact not a separate part of the pipe, but merely an incavation on the foot, having at its lower end the form of a tongue, as we see on fig. 1.-41855, Johann Julius Seidel, The Organ and Its Construction, page 78
Noun (2)
incavation (plural incavations)
- An act of earthing artifacts; the burial or entombment of archaeologically interesting items.
- Instead, what is incavated is archaeological evidence in itself, and incavations are thus about the very possibility of archaeology.2004, Neil Brodie, Catherine Hills, Material Engagements: Studies in Honour of Colin Renfrew, page 48
Questions about incavations
- What is incavations the plural of?
- Incavations is the plural of incavation.
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