trituration

noun — 2 senses

trituration

noun
1

The act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.

  • In the trituration of another century or so the corners may disappear; but in the meantime, in the year of grace 1871, I was as much in a new country as if I had been walking out of the Hotel St. Antoine at Antwerp.1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Cockermouth and Keswick: A Fragment: Cockermouth”, in Essays of Travel, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1905, →OCLC, page 95:
2

Something triturated, especially dental amalgam.

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triturate

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