rubble (medicine) and inclusion (iou)

rubble (medicine)

rubble

1. Water-worn or rough broken stones; broken bricks, etc, used in coarse masonry, or to fill up between the facing courses of walls. "Inside [the wall] there was rubble or mortar." (Jowett (Thucyd))

2. Rough stone as it comes from the quarry; also, a quarryman's term for the upper fragmentary and decomposed portion of a mass of stone; brash.

3. <geology> A mass or stratum of fragments or rock lying under the alluvium, and derived from the neighboring rock.

4. The whole of the bran of wheat before it is sorted into pollard, bran, etc. Coursed rubble, rubble masonry in which courses are formed by leveling off the work at certain heights.

Origin: From an assumed Old French dim. Of robe See Rubbish.

Source: Websters Dictionary

inclusion (iou)

inclusion noun. E17.
[Latin inclusio(n-), from inclus- pa. ppl stem of includere INCLUDE: see -ION.]
The action or an act of including; the fact or condition of being included; an instance of this. E17.
A. Brookner The idea of being Heather's best friend seemed to guarantee my inclusion in any future festivities.
A thing which is included; spec. (Geology), a solid fragment or a globule of liquid or gas enclosed within a rock or mineral; (Metallurgy, Cytology, etc.) a discrete body or particle recognizably distinct from the substance in which it is embedded. M19.
Math. In full inclusion function, inclusion map, inclusion mapping. A mapping of a set A into a set B containing A which maps each element of A on to itself. M20.
Comb.: inclusion body a protein capsule enclosing infective particles in a virus; inclusion function, inclusion map, inclusion mapping: see sense 3 above.

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