What is the difference between debris and abrasion?
debris | abrasion |
Rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed.
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Litter and discarded refuse.
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(geology) Large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc.
The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction.
(obsolete) The substance thus rubbed off; debris.
(geology) The effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it.
An abraded, scraped, or worn area.
(medicine) A superficial wound caused by scraping; an area of skin where the cells on the surface have been scraped or worn away.
(dentistry) The wearing away of the surface of the tooth by chewing.
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In context|geology|lang=en terms the difference between debris and abrasion
is that debris is {{context|geology|lang=en}} large rock fragments left by a melting glacier etc while abrasion is {{context|geology|lang=en}} the effect of mechanical erosion of rock, especially a river bed, by rock fragments scratching and scraping it {{defdate|first attested in the mid 19th century}}.As nouns the difference between debris and abrasion
is that debris is rubble, wreckage, scattered remains of something destroyed while abrasion is the act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction {{defdate|first attested in the mid 17th century}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =7| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.debris
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Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
