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trituration

trituration noun: the act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.

Noun

trituration (countable and uncountable, plural triturations)

  1. The act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.
    • In the trituration of another century or so the corners may disappear; but in the meantime, in the year of grace 1871, I was as much in a new country as if I had been walking out of the Hotel St. Antoine at Antwerp.1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Cockermouth and Keswick: A Fragment: Cockermouth”, in Essays of Travel, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1905, →OCLC, page 95
  2. Something triturated, especially dental amalgam.

Forms of trituration

pluraltriturations

Questions about trituration

What does trituration mean?
Trituration means the act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.
What part of speech is trituration?
Trituration is a noun.
What is the plural of trituration?
The plural of trituration is triturations.

Words near trituration in the dictionary

  1. triturable
  2. triturate
  3. triturated
  4. triturates
  5. triturating
  6. trituration
  7. triturations
  8. triturative
  9. triturator
  10. triturators
  11. triturature

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