Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To close or obstruct.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To occlude, stop, or shut; effect obturation in.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To stop or close, as an opening to stop (a gun breech) so as to prevent the escape of gas in firing.
WordNet 3.0
- v. block passage through
Etymologies
- Latin obtūrāre, obtūrāt-; see teuə- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“When the bullet is fired, it expands and fills the obturate (drilled hole in the barrel core material) more evenly.”
“On the other far-away, if your target is to be an artist, there is nothing obturate ignore to attending craft school.”
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