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Impaction vs Compaction - What's the difference?

impaction | compaction |

As nouns the difference between impaction and compaction

is that impaction is compression; the packing together of loose matter while compaction is the process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.

impaction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • compression; the packing together of loose matter
  • something packed together tightly; a mass of densely-packed matter
  • (medicine) a solid, immobile bulk of stool

    • compaction

    English

    (wikipedia compaction)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The process of compacting something, or something that has been compacted.
  • *2009 , Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall , Fourth Estate 2010, p. 480:
  • *:At Smithfield Frith is being shovelled up, his youth, his grace, his learning and his beauty: a compaction of mud, grease, charred bone.