extrusion

See also: extrusión

English

Etymology

Mid-16th century from Latin extrūdere, from ex- (“out”) +‎ trūdere (“to thrust”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -uːʒən

Noun

extrusion (countable and uncountable, plural extrusions)

1. A manufacturing process where a billet of material is pushed and/or drawn through a die to create a shaped rod, rail or pipe.
2. An item formed by the process of extrusion.
3. (virology) A process through which a virus leaves its host cell by fusing with that cell's plasma membrane.

Derived terms

• coextrusion
• extrusome
• hydroextrusion
• microextrusion
• pultrusion

Related terms

• extrude

Translations

manufacturing process

• Asturian: estrusión f
• Bulgarian: изтикване n (iztikvane), избутване n (izbutvane)
• Catalan: extrusió f
• Finnish: ekstruusio (fi)
• French: extrusion (fr) f
• German: Extrusion f, Formdrücken n (durch eine [Form-]Düse), Formpressen n, Strangpressen n
• Italian: estrusione (it) f
• Norwegian: ekstrudering (no) f
• Portuguese: extrusão f
• Spanish: extrusión f

Further reading

• extrusion on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛk.stʁy.zjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Somain)):

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Noun

extrusion f (plural extrusions)

1. extrusion

Further reading

• “extrusion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012