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noun
The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: medicine, sciences
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noun
The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: dentistry, medicine, sciences
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noun
An occluded front.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: climatology, meteorology, natural-sciences
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noun
A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
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noun
The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: natural-sciences, physical-sciences, physics
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noun
The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: computer-graphics, computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences
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noun
the act of blocking
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: blockage, closure
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Broader terms: obstruction
Narrower terms: implosion
noun
an obstruction in a pipe or tube
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: blockage, block, closure, stop, stoppage
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: obstruction, obstructor, obstructer, impediment, impedimenta
Narrower terms: breechblock, breech closer, plug, stopper, stopple, vapor lock, vapour lock
noun
(dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: position, spatial relation
noun
(meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: occluded front
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Broader terms: front
noun
closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: attack
Narrower terms: laryngospasm, embolism, thromboembolism, thrombosis, coronary occlusion
History
Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“to shut up or close up; to restrain”), from ob + claudō (“to shut or close”).
Across languages
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