Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A separation; a throwing out.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete A shutting off; exclusion.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun obsolete A shutting off; exclusion.
  • noun dentistry A separation of the teeth when the jaw is slightly opened.
  • noun dentistry Especially, a separation of posterior teeth when the lower jaw moves forward, as a natural result of the alignment of the anterior teeth.

Etymologies

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Latin disclusio, from discludere, disclusum, to separate. See disclose.

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