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Definition of Detrition
1. Noun. Erosion by friction.
Generic synonyms: Eating Away, Eroding, Erosion, Wearing, Wearing Away
Derivative terms: Abrade, Attritional, Corrade
2. Noun. The wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice.
Generic synonyms: Friction, Rubbing
Derivative terms: Abrade, Attritional, Grind
3. Noun. Effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure.
Specialized synonyms: Attrition
Generic synonyms: Effort, Elbow Grease, Exertion, Sweat, Travail
Derivative terms: Frictional, Rub
Definition of Detrition
1. n. A wearing off or away.
Definition of Detrition
1. Noun. attrition; erosion by friction ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Detrition
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Detrition
1. A wearing away by use or friction. Origin: L. De-tero, pp. -tritus, to rub off (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Detrition
Literary usage of Detrition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Student's Handbook of Physical Geology by Alfred John Jukes-Browne (1892)
"Marine Erosion compared with Subaerial detrition.—In any comparison between the
relative amount -of erosion performed by the sea, and that accomplished by ..."
2. British Farmer's Magazine (1853)
"Soils are often found in an unaltered state resting on the rocks from which they
have been produced by detrition, and are composed of similar substances in ..."
3. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1830)
"Thus the lower incisors of many persons, from constantly rubbing against the
posterior surface of the upper incisors, undergo detrition of their apices with ..."
4. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1872)
"Clifford argued from elastic yielding, or from detrition. Considering first
detrition, on the supposition that the earth did not yield elastically: if the ..."
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