Detritus vs Detrition - What's the difference?
detritus | detrition | Related terms |
(countable, chiefly, geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion.
(biology) Organic waste material from decomposing dead plants or animals.
debris or fragments of disintegrated material
Detritus is a related term of detrition.
As nouns the difference between detritus and detrition
is that detritus is (countable|chiefly|geological) pieces of rock broken off by ice, glacier, or erosion while detrition is attrition; erosion by friction.detritus
English
Noun
(wikipedia detritus)- 2001'. "But of course: no clutter. No newspapers, no renegade scraps of domestic '''detritus , no rubber bands, paper clips, coupons, pens or pencils, notebooks, magazines. No knives. Where were the knives?" — Chip Kidd. ''The Cheese Monkeys
