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Definition of Detrusion
1. n. The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust.
Definition of Detrusion
1. Noun. The act of thrusting or driving down or outward; outward thrust. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detrusion
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detrusion
Literary usage of Detrusion
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts by Thomas Young (1845)
"It is difficult to compare the lateral adhesion, or the force which resists the
detrusion of the parts of a solid, with any form of direct cohesion. ..."
2. Johnson's Materials of Construction by John Butler Johnson (1918)
"The instrument shown was made for specimens less than lj in. in diameter and a
gage length of 3 in. 94. A Dial Indicator of detrusion. ..."
3. Handbook of Railroad Construction: For the Use of American Engineers by George Leonard Vose (1857)
"detrusion, or crushing across a fixed point, is such as occurs wherever a brace
abuts against a chord, or where ;i bridge bears upon a bolster or wall plate ..."
4. Handbook of Railroad Construction: For the Use of American Engineers by George Leonard Vose (1857)
"detrusion, or crushing across a fixed point, is such as occurs wherever a brace
abuts against a chord, or where a bridge bears upon a bolster or wall plate ..."
5. Occasional Papers on the Theory of Glaciers: Now First Collected and by James David Forbes (1859)
"... Dirt-Bands and Wrinkles of Glaciers—Connection with Frontal Dip—Surfaces of
detrusion in Iron Turnings, attended with Vertical Accumulation of Material. ..."
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