Incavation

Quick meaning: Incavation is a noun meaning The act of making hollow.

Meaning

The act of making hollow.

More Meanings

1. The act of caving in.
2. A hollow; a physical depression; a concavity.
3. (archaeology) An act of earthing artifacts; the burial or entombment of archaeologically interesting items.

Example Sentences

A case or curb to be used to prevent incavation in sinking wells and boring into loose ground

Inside a more or less narrow debouchement the incavation often widens to a cross-section which greatly exceeds that of the debouchement.

This lip is in fact not a separate part of the pipe, but merely an incavation on the foot, having at its lower end the form of a tongue, as we see on fig. 1.-4

If a court ( through the incavation of its walls) is laid open to public ground, whosoever brings anything from private ground into such a court, or from the court into private ground, is culpable.

Word Forms

• incavations

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include incision, burrowing, infill, encasement, incrustation, engraving.

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