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Comminuted vs Noncomminuted - What's the difference?

comminuted | noncomminuted |

As adjectives the difference between comminuted and noncomminuted

is that comminuted is reduced to small particles or to powder, as by crushing or pulverizing while noncomminuted is not comminuted.

As a verb comminuted

is (comminute).

comminuted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Reduced to small particles or to powder, as by crushing or pulverizing.
  • * 2004 , (Richard Fortey), The Earth , Folio Society 2011, p. 53:
    • Hawaiian sand is utterly different: it is comminuted coral and algae, the broken detritus of a hundred thousand storms washed up against the land.

    Synonyms

    * triturated

    Verb

    (head)
  • (comminute)

    • noncomminuted

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • not comminuted