detrusion

[dih-troo-zhuhn]

noun

1. the act of detruding.

Other Word Forms

• detrusive adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of detrusion¹

1610–20; < Late Latin dētrūsiōn- (stem of dētrūsiō ) a thrusting down, equivalent to Latin dētrūs ( us ) (past participle of dētrūdere; detrude ) + -iōn- -ion

Example Sentences

In this case it would be shearing along the grain, sometimes called detrusion.

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That punching, or the forcible detrusion of a circular piece of metal to form a rivet hole, has a more or less injurious effect upon the metal plates surrounding the hole, is a fact well known and admitted by every engineer, and it has often been said that the rivet holes ought all to be drilled.

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Detrusion is the crushing against some fixed point, such as obtains where a brace abuts against a chord, or where a bridge rests on a bolster; and the shearing of pins, bolts and rivets, also comes under this head. 

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The various strains, to which the materials of a bridge are subjected—are compression, extension and detrusion.

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A similar detrusion of a marly matter in circular arches or vaults obtains in the salt mines in Cheshire; from whence Dr. Hutton very ingeniously concludes, that the salt must have been liquified by heat; which would seem to be much confirmed by the above theory.

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