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Occlusion vs Obscuration - What's the difference?

occlusion | obscuration |

As nouns the difference between occlusion and obscuration

is that occlusion is the process of occluding, or something that occludes while obscuration is the state of being obscured.

occlusion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
  • (medicine) Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
  • (medicine, dentistry) The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
  • (meteorology) An occluded front.
  • (linguistics) A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
  • (physics) The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
  • (computing) The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

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    obscuration

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • the state of being obscured
  • *1843 , '', book 3, ch. X, ''Plugson of Undershot
  • *:Money is miraculous. What miraculous facilities has it yielded, will it yield us; but also what never-imagined confusions, obscurations has it brought in; down almost to total extinction of the moral-sense in large masses of mankind!