noun. The act of comminuting or reducing to fine particles or to a powder; pulverization.

noun. In surgery, a comminute fracture.

noun. Attenuation or diminution by small abstractions.

noun. The act of reducing to a fine powder or to small particles; pulverization; the state of being comminuted.

noun. Fracture (of a bone) into a number of pieces.

noun. Gradual diminution by the removal of small particles at a time; a lessening; a wearing away.

noun. The breaking or grinding up of a material to form smaller particles.

noun. Fracture of a bone site in multiple pieces (at least three); crumbling.

"The progression from the comminution till and gravelly mud of Units 3 and 2 into the diatomaceous mud of Unit 1 likely represents the Last Glacial Maximum to Holocene transition in the northwestern Weddell Sea."

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