abrasion

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See also: Abrasion, abrasión, and abrașiôn

English

Etymology

First attested in 1656. From French abrasion (attested since 1611), from Medieval Latin abrasio (“a scraping”), from Latin abrādō (“scrape off”). See also abrade.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /əˈbɹeɪ.ʒn̩/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪʒən

Noun

abrasion (countable and uncountable, plural abrasions)

  1. The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction. [1]
  2. (obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris. [1]
  4. (geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it. [1]
  5. An abraded, scraped, or worn area. [1]
  7. (medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away. [1]
  8. (dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abrasion”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 7.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin abrasiōnem (“a scraping”).

Pronunciation

Noun

abrasion f (plural abrasions)

  1. abrasion

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