apertion
English
Noun
apertion (countable and uncountable, plural apertions)
- (archaic) The act of opening.
- (archaic) An opening; an aperture.
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
- by ruption or apertion
- 1676, Richard Wiseman, Severall Chirurgical Treatises
Related terms
- apert
- aperture
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for apertion in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- apritone, atropine, entropia, operatin'