occlusion
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
occlusion (countable and uncountable, plural occlusions)
- The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
- (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
- (medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
- (meteorology) An occluded front.
- (phonetics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
- (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
- (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
Derived terms edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin occlūsiōnem (“occluding", "obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up”, “I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
occlusion f (plural occlusions)
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Further reading edit
- “occlusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.