单词 | demersion |
释义 | demersionn. 1. Plunging in, immersion; submergence, drowning. Obsolete or rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > pharmacy > [noun] > processes in pharmacy levigation1471 frixion1617 nutrition1617 extinction1646 confectioning1650 demersion1692 pill-rolling1838 succussion1848 pearl-coating1883 cryoprecipitation1955 microencapsulation1961 microencapsulating1970 the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > downward motion > [noun] > sinking down > sinking or submerging in liquid submersion?a1425 sinking1440 demersion1692 submerging1704 submergement1808 1692 J. Ray Three Physico-theol. Disc. (ed. 2) iii. v. 301 This sinking and demersion of Buildings. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Demersion, (with Chymists) the putting any Medicine into a dissolving Liquor. 1807 J. Robinson Archæol. Græca i. xx. 93 Καταποντισμὸς, demersion, or drowning in the sea. 1820 W. Taylor in J. W. Robberds Mem. W. Taylor (1843) II. 507 He was..muddled with mathematics, to whom they were always a sentence of intellectual demersion. 2. Organic matter lying at the bottom of the sea. ΚΠ 1919 Nature 31 July 438/2 There remains the ‘Demerson’, that extremely plenteous floating organic matter..derived from the..planktonic forms which rain down’..from the upper waters to the depths below. 1923 W. A. Herdman Founders Oceanogr. 327 The demersion upon which hordes of benthonic animals can browse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1692 |
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