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trituration|trɪtjʊəˈreɪʃən|
[ad. late L. trītūrātiōn-em, n. of action from trītūrāre to triturate; cf. F. trituration (14th c. in Godef. Compl.).]
The action or process of triturating; reduction to fine particles or powder by friction; comminution, pulverization. a. Pharm., Geol., etc.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vii. 197 A pumice-stone powdered is lighter then one entire,..for..abatement can hardly be avoyded in the Trituration. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters I. 46 Earths..are..reduced to the utmost tenuity by trituration or grinding. 1833Lyell Princ. Geol. III. 2 Disputing..whether sand and pebbles were the result of aqueous trituration. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 318 By the continual trituration of the runner, the ore is reduced and amalgamation effected.
b. Phys.: see triturate v. b.
1731Bailey vol. II, Trituration, (in Physick) the action of the stomach on the food. 1740Cheyne Regimen 73 Blood Globules, by their Rotundity, Volubility, and Elasticity, resist Trituration, that is, Digestion. 1802Paley Nat. Theol. xvi. (1817) 140 Without the trituration of the gizzard; a chicken would have starved upon a heap of corn.
c. transf. A mass produced, or medicine prepared, by trituration.
1890Billings Med. Dict., Trituration... 2. A preparation directed by the U.S. P[harmacopœia]... T. of elaterin, elaterin 10, saccharum lactis 90; triturate (U.S.P.). 1898P. Manson Trop. Diseases viii. 153 He injected bouillon containing a trituration of one of these flies into a guinea-pig.
d. fig.
1832I. Taylor Saturday Even. 344 The royal Image and Superscription by the trituration and corrosion it undergoes in the common world becomes continually less and less distinct. 1856Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) IV. xl. 528 Wealthy nobles..whose means were in process of trituration under the pressure of the imperial imposts. 1909Edin. Rev. July 214 This trituration of the people has produced a multitude of dialects. |