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Comminution   Listen
noun
Comminution  n.  
1.
The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.
2.
(Surg.) Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.
3.
Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away. "Natural and necessary comminution of our lives."





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"Comminution" Quotes from Famous Books



... the soil of the earth a thickness corresponding to the height of its trees, but only such a thin layer as would be left by the decomposition of its whole vegetation. In the Coral Reef, also, we must allow not only for the deduction of the soft parts, but also for the comminution of all these brittle branches, which would be broken and crushed by the action of the storms and tides, and add, therefore, but little to the Reef in proportion to ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 9, No. 56, June, 1862 • Various


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