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trituration (countable and uncountable, plural triturations)

1. The act of triturating; grinding to a fine powder.
   • 1871, Robert Louis Stevenson, “Cockermouth and Keswick: A Fragment: Cockermouth”, in Essays of Travel, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1905, →OCLC, page 95:

     In the trituration of another century or so the corners may disappear; but in the meantime, in the year of grace 1871, I was as much in a new country as if I had been walking out of the Hotel St. Antoine at Antwerp.

2. Something triturated, especially dental amalgam.