Occlusion vs Preclude - What's the difference?
occlusion | preclude |
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.
Remove the possibility of; (l); prevent or exclude; to make (l).
* {{quote-web
, date = 2013-08-09
, author = Douglas Main
, title = Israel Outlaws Water Fluoridation
, site = livescience
, url = http://www.livescience.com/38796-israel-outlaws-water-fluoridation.html
, accessdate = 2013-09-30
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As a noun occlusion
is the process of occluding, or something that occludes.As a verb preclude is
remove the possibility of; (l); prevent or exclude; to make (l).occlusion
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(en noun)Derived terms
* * * * * * * * * * * * ----preclude
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* (obsolete)Verb
(preclud)- It has been raining for days, but that doesn’t preclude the possibility that the skies will clear by this afternoon!
- Israel's decision to ban fluoridation follows a vote to preclude the practice in Portland, Ore., and Wichita, Kan. It was also recently overturned in Hamilton, the fourth most populous city in New Zealand.