levigation

See also: lévigation

English

Etymology

Latin levigatio (“a smoothing”): compare French lévigation.

Noun

levigation (plural levigations)

1. The act or operation of levigating (making into fine powder)

   Synonym: trituration

Translations

Separation process

• Portuguese: levigação f

References

• “levigation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.