Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or process of pushing or thrusting out.
- noun The act or process of shaping by forcing through a die.
- noun An object or material produced by extruding.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of extruding, in either use; a thrusting or driving out; expulsion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of thrusting or pushing out; a driving out; expulsion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
manufacturing process where abillet of material is pushed and/or drawn through adie to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe. - noun An item formed by the process of extrusion.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings
- noun squeezing out by applying pressure
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The disproportion is so great between the two cells, that the phenomenon does not at first suggest the idea of cell division, and it is usually described as the extrusion of the first polar body.
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Then, in a process called "extrusion," the proteins are realigned so that the texture "mimics the fibrous nature of the muscle," which is the part we typically eat, says Phil Kerr , senior director of research and discovery for Solae LLC, a St. Louis developer of soy-based ingredients.
The Veggie Burger's New Dream: Be More Like Meat Anne Marie Chaker 2012
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The research combines the metal and ceramic through the process of extrusion, which is similar to squeezing toothpaste through a tube but is precisely controlled.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The research combines the metal and ceramic through the process of extrusion, which is similar to squeezing toothpaste through a tube but is precisely controlled.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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The research combines the metal and ceramic through the process of extrusion, which is similar to squeezing toothpaste through a tube but is precisely controlled.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Rather than merely pushing the Himalayas upward, as some geologists believe, others have argued that the indenting Indian plate also pushed Southeast Asia and China aside towards the Pacific ocean, a process referred to as extrusion or escape tectonics.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Mundell developed a special skill with a machine used to set windows - a process called extrusion - and worked in the 1990s for Milgard Windows & Doors in Fife, Stafford said.
The Seattle Times 2009
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There were also medical considerations, including thin skin that an implant might wear through in a rare phenomenon called extrusion, vigorous chest muscle spasms, and a delay in wound healing-all practical reasons why I was not ambitious about size.
The Morning News 2009
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The slightly positive development of demand for metal products such as extrusion ingot, sheet ingot, foundry alloys and wire rod in the second half of 2009 has continued into 2010.
D Mag - News 2010
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The slightly positive development of demand for metal products such as extrusion ingot, sheet ingot, foundry alloys and wire rod in the second half of 2009 has continued into 2010.
D Mag - News 2010
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To automate the assembly line, Hoj knew they'd need to switch from slabbing the marshmallows on cookie sheets to "extrusion," the conveyor-belt process used for mass-produced marshmallows.
Silicon Valley tried to mass produce fancy marshmallows. It got messy, fast. Adam Rogers 2024
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