搜尋結果
occlusion
- IPA[əˈkluːʒn]
英式
- the blockage or closing of an opening, blood vessel, or hollow organ；the momentary closure of the passage of breath during the articulation of a consonant.
noun: occlusion, plural noun: occlusions
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. the blockage or closing of an opening, blood vessel, or hollow organ examination revealed central retinal artery occlusion occlusion of the external ear canal
- ▪ the momentary closure of the passage of breath during the articulation of a consonant.
- 2. a process whereby something is hidden or obscured from prominence or view the occlusion of female agency in recent and contemporary discourse on the subject we interpreted the gaps and occlusions in Alma-Tadema's compositions as signs of the unpredictability of modernity
- 3. a process by which the cold front of a rotating low-pressure system catches up the warm front, so that the warm air between them is forced upwards off the earth's surface between wedges of cold air often, in the later stages of a storm's life cycle, a frontal occlusion occurs
- ▪ an occluded front.
- 4. the position of the teeth when the jaws are closed.
