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extrusion

[ ik-stroo-zhuhn ]

noun

  1. the act of extruding or the state of being extruded.
  2. something that is extruded.


extrusion

/ ɪˈٰːə /

noun

  1. the act or process of extruding
    1. the movement of magma onto the surface of the earth through volcano craters and cracks in the earth's crust, forming igneous rock
    2. any igneous rock formed in this way
  2. a component or length of material formed by the process of extruding
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

extrusion

/ ĭ-ٰ̅̅ə /

  1. The emission of lava onto the surface of the Earth.
  2. ◆ Rocks that form from the cooling of lava are generally fine-grained (because they cool quickly, before large crystals can grow) and are called extrusive rocks.
  3. Compare intrusion
  4. The process of making a shaped object, such as a rod or tube, by forcing a material into a mold.
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Derived Forms

  • ˈٰܲ, adjective
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of extrusion1

1530–40; < Medieval Latin ٰūō- (stem of ٰūō ), equivalent to Latin ٰū ( us ) (past participle of ٰū to extrude ) + -ō- -ion
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of extrusion1

C16: from Medieval Latin ٰūō, from ٰū to extrude
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In order to mimic this structure, manufacturers use processes such as stretching, kneading, folding, layering, 3D printing and extrusion.

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Mirny predicted that DNA inside cells is folded up and organized by specialized proteins forming molecular motors, in a process called “loop extrusion.”

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The researchers used a technique called adaptive laboratory evolution to create a strain that is resilient to extrusion temperatures.

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The answer to stopping asthma symptoms may lie in cell extrusion, a process the researchers discovered that drives most epithelial cell death.

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Li and Md. Reza-E-Rabby developed the tooling and process envelopes for the solid-phase friction extrusion process that led to the patent.

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