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Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin occlūsiō, occlūsiōnis (“occluding, obstruction”), from the Classical Latin occlūdō (“to shut up or close up; to restrain”), from ob + claudō (“to shut or close”).

derived from occlūdō
borrowed from occlūsiō

Definitions

The process of occluding, or something that occludes.
Anything that obstructs or closes a vessel or canal.
The alignment of the teeth when upper and lower jaws are brought together.
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1. An occluded front.
2. A closure within the vocal tract that produces an oral stop or nasal stop.
3. The absorption of a gas or liquid by a substance such as a metal.
4. The blocking of the view of part of an image by another.

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Derived

abocclusion, antocclusion, benocclusion, disocclusion, distocclusion, distoclusion, infraocclusion, interocclusion, malocclusion, mesiocclusion, neutrocclusion, neutroclusion, nonocclusion, occlusional, occlusion body, occlusive, orthocclusion, periocclusion, postocclusion, preocclusion, reocclusion, retrocclusion, subocclusion, supraocclusion, torsocclusion, vasoocclusion, venoocclusion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at occlusion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at occlusion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at occlusion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.