incavation

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The act of making hollow. countable,uncountable
    — For, the chief Difference betwixt a Fluid, and a Soft body, accepted in a Philosophical or præcise, not a Poetical or random sense, consisteth only in this; that the Fluid, when prest upon, doth yield to the body pressing, not by indentment or incavation of it superfice, i.e. the retrocession of its superficial particles, which are immediately urged by the depriment, toward its middle or profound ones, which are farther from it; but by rising upwards in round and equally on all sides, as much as it is deprest in the superfice;
  2. An act of earthing artifacts; the burial or entombment of archaeologically interesting items.
    — Instead, what is incavated is archaeological evidence in itself, and incavations are thus about the very possibility of archaeology.
  3. The act of caving in. countable,uncountable
    — A case or curb to be used to prevent incavation in sinking wells and boring into loose ground
  4. A hollow; a physical depression; a concavity. countable,uncountable
    — This lip is in fact not a separate part of the pipe, but merely an incavation on the foot, having at its lower end the form of a tongue, as we see on fig. 1.-4

词形变化

incavations plural incavations plural

词源

词源 1
From in- + cave + -ation.
词源 2
By analogy to excavation.
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