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triturations

triturations is the plural of trituration.

Meaning of trituration

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.

Questions about triturations

What is triturations the plural of?
Triturations is the plural of trituration.

Words near triturations in the dictionary

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

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