Occlusion: Definition and part of speech

Occlusion

  1. n. The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.
  2. n. The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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