induration
/ɪndjʊˈɹeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.31 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A hardening of an area of the body as a reaction to inflammation, hyperemia, or neoplastic infiltration.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The quality of nonfriability; the extent to which a rock does not crumble; rock strength.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The process of the strengthening of rocks by heating, compaction or cementation, or a combination thereof.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "The voice was harder than I had known, and not only in stony reaction to long floods of wholly just selfpity, also roughened with gin and smoke, perhaps also assimilated to New York induration, the hardness of culture as well as of pain."
- "Even the putatively innocuous whimsical shapes and designs of cakes and pastry, notably in Central Europe, retain to this day the phallic concept, the cryptic induration of the aphrodisiac function."
- "Both erythema and induration appear to be adequate indices of tuberculin sensitivity."
- "The erythema had spread to 20 cm, and the central induration had spread to 9 cm."
- ""Induration is a measure of rock "strength" and is defined as the ratio of the measured frame modulus to the maximum frame modulus allowed by the Gassmann-Biot model." Spratt, R. S.; Goins, N. R. and Fitch, T. J. (1993) "Pseudo-shear — The analysis of AVO." Castagna, John P. and Backus, Milo M. (eds.) Offset-Dependent Reflectivity — Theory and Practice of AVO Analysis. Series: Investigation in Geophysics volume 8. Tulsa : Society of Exploration Geophysicistspp. 37-56, page 37, isbn 978-1-56080-059-0."
- ""Induration of carbonate rocks proceeds predominately in the early stages (prior to diagenesis) by compaction and expulsion of fluids." Whittaker, Alun (1985) Formation Evaluation: Geological Procedures Dordrecht : Springer Verlag page 104, isbn 978-94-010-8861-9."
Etymology
From Middle English induracioun, from Old French induracion (“hardness, obstinacy”) or directly from Medieval Latin induratiō.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: induracioun, induracion, induratiō