Comminution

Quick meaning: Comminution is a noun meaning (often mining, waste management) The breaking or grinding up of a material to form smaller particles.

Meaning

(often mining, waste management) The breaking or grinding up of a material to form smaller particles.

More Meanings

1. (traumatology) The fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces (technically, at least three); crumbling.

Example Sentences

What circumstances determine the degree of comminution to which a substance should be subjected preparatory to future extraction?

Termites are herbivores and detritivores variously involved in the comminution and decomposition of vegetable matter, through most of the warm temperate and tropical zones.

Comminution of the shaft of one or of both bones of the fore-arm does not of itself indicate operative interference, other complications may necessitate primary or secondary amputation.

It's [the mouth's] hooked Form is of great Uſe to the rapacious Kind [of bird], in catching and holding their Prey, and in the Comminution thereof by tearing; to others it is no less ſerviceable to their climbing, as well as neat and nice Comminution of their Food.

Word Forms

• comminutions

Synonyms for comminution

Depending on context, synonyms include crushing, pulverization.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include grinding, bucking, trituration, microfracturing, pulverization, friation.

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