Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The process of occluding.
- n. Something that occludes.
- n. Medicine An obstruction or a closure of a passageway or vessel.
- n. Dentistry The alignment of the teeth of the upper and lower jaws when brought together.
- n. Meteorology The process of occluding air masses.
- n. Meteorology An occluded front.
- n. Linguistics Closure at some point in the vocal tract that blocks the flow of air in the production of an oral or nasal stop.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A shutting up; a closing; specifically, in pathology, the total or partial closure of a vessel, cavity, or hollow organ; imperforation.
- n. In physics and chem., the act of occluding, or absorbing and concealing; the state of being occluded. See occlude.
- n. In dentistry, the fitting into each other of the cusps of the opposing teeth in the upper and lower jaws.
Wiktionary
- n. The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
- n. medicine Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
- n. medicine, dentistry The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
- n. meteorology An occluded front.
- n. linguistics A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
- n. physics The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
- n. computing The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of occluding, or the state of being occluded.
- n. (Med.) The transient approximation of the edges of a natural opening; imperforation.
WordNet 3.0
- n. closure or blockage (as of a blood vessel)
- n. (dentistry) the normal spatial relation of the teeth when the jaws are closed
- n. the act of blocking
- n. an obstruction in a pipe or tube
- n. (meteorology) a composite front when colder air surrounds a mass of warm air and forces it aloft
Etymologies
- From Latin occlūsus, past participle of occlūdere, to occlude; see occlude. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Fetal lung growth after short-term tracheal occlusion is linearly related to intratracheal pressure.”
“And, two, these were the travel-and-waiting-room socks on the day (last November?) when I went to the Eye Pavilion and learned that retinal vein occlusion has involved permanent damage to my sight.”
“Current feature-based systems have accuracy that tops out at 65 percent when some form of occlusion is introduced.”
“RCTs are not the end-all in regard to side effects with recent examples being cardiac outcomes of selective NSAIDs and the long term occlusion of drug eluting stents.”
Observational data is important but how do we analyze the data.
“I was looking to see what the word occlusion meant.”
“This could be a sculptor trying to capture a crucial feature of two-dimensional perspective -- a feature called "occlusion" -- whereby space is mapped out by showing what parts of one object overlap another.”
The Washington Post: Gopnik's Daily Pic: Riccio at the National Gallery
“The jaws are laterally compressed and gently curved, and though the bill tips meet when the jaws are in occlusion, a gap is usually visible part way along the jaws, even when they’re closed.”
“The darkest parts of the shadow are usually at points of contact, called occlusion shadows, where secondary sources can't reach.”
“Retinal vein occlusion occurs when one of the veins becomes blocked by a blood clot.”
“In this version comes a new interesting feature, known as ambient occlusion, which is a function inside the control panel of the updated beta version of the NVIDIA ForceWare drivers.”
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reesetee Eeew! Feb 23, 2008
chained_bear "...when he learnt that the grape in question was only one of the nine that made up the charge of the launch's four-pounder, he at once had him seized up by the heels, ran for the stomach-pump and forced a large quantity of tepid salt water tinged with rum into his body, reflecting with pleasure, as among the agonized retching he heard the clang of the ball in the basin, that he had cured his patient not only of probably mortal occlusion but of any taste for spiritous liquors for some time to come."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 278 Feb 23, 2008