02-03-2016, 12:48 PM
Occlusion: a form of 'closing', that leads to some experienced effect, like 'shading', 'obfuscation', or impaired flow.
PC Gamers will know the term from "ambient occlusion", one of the settings you can use for changing the graphics quality when rendering scenes.
Wikipedia lists a whole lot of technical and scientific uses:
Health and anatomy
Occlusion (dentistry), the manner in which the upper and lower teeth come together when the mouth is closed.
Occlusion effect, an audio phenomenon that occurs when one closes the opening into the ear canal and the loudness of low pitched sounds increases
Occlusion miliaria, a skin condition that is accompanied by anhidrosis and increased susceptibility to heat
Vascular occlusion, blockage of a blood vessel
Vascular occlusion training or blood flow restriction training is a technique done by some bodybuilders, utilizing this
See also
Occlusion training (disambiguation)
Occlusive, a stop consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases
Occlusive dressing, an air- and water-tight trauma dressing used in first aid
Occultation, when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer
Occlusal trauma, damage incurred when teeth are left in traumatic occlusion without proper treatment
Occluded front, part of cyclone formation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occlusion
PC Gamers will know the term from "ambient occlusion", one of the settings you can use for changing the graphics quality when rendering scenes.
Wikipedia lists a whole lot of technical and scientific uses:
Health and anatomy
Occlusion (dentistry), the manner in which the upper and lower teeth come together when the mouth is closed.
Occlusion effect, an audio phenomenon that occurs when one closes the opening into the ear canal and the loudness of low pitched sounds increases
Occlusion miliaria, a skin condition that is accompanied by anhidrosis and increased susceptibility to heat
Vascular occlusion, blockage of a blood vessel
Vascular occlusion training or blood flow restriction training is a technique done by some bodybuilders, utilizing this
See also
Occlusion training (disambiguation)
Occlusive, a stop consonant in which the vocal tract is blocked so that all airflow ceases
Occlusive dressing, an air- and water-tight trauma dressing used in first aid
Occultation, when one object is hidden by another object that passes between it and the observer
Occlusal trauma, damage incurred when teeth are left in traumatic occlusion without proper treatment
Occluded front, part of cyclone formation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occlusion