occlusion

Betekenis (Engels)

1. (countable, uncountable) The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
2. (countable, uncountable) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
3. (countable, uncountable) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
4. (countable, uncountable) An occluded front.
5. (countable, uncountable) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
6. (countable, uncountable) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
7. (countable, uncountable) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

Sinonieme

blockage

closure

block

stoppage

occluded front

stop

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obstruction

closing

coherence

costiveness

dam

deadlock

escapement

gather

impurity

inclusion

interlock

lockout

make

obturation

pinning

stopping up

thrombosis

thrombus

tamponage

joining-up

foreign material

holding-on

occluded foreign substance

frontal occlusion

articulation

bite

blocking

clogging

close

close-up

clutch

Vertalings

oclusión

occlusione

occlusion

Verstopfung

oclusão

έμφραξη

βούλωμα

oclusió

κλείσιμο

intasatura

Okklusion

ostruzione

obstruction

intasamento

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/əˈkluː.ʒən/

Etimologie (Engels)

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“I shut up or close up; I restrain”), from ob + claudō (“I shut or close”).