incrustación

f.

incrustation, inlay.

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incrustación

► nombre femenino

1 incrustation, encrustation

2 (artística) inlaying, inlay

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SF

1) (=acto) (lit) incrustation; (fig) grafting

2) (Arte) inlay, inlaid work

3) (Téc) scale

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femenino

a) (de madera, metal) inlay

con incrustaciones de nácar — inlaid with mother-of-pearl

la corona tiene incrustaciones de rubíes — the crown is set with rubies

b) (Col) (Odont) filling

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= encrustration [incustration], incrustration [encustration].

Ex. After a few weeks (or days, if you have very bad encrustation) the catheter will drain less well and then block.

Ex. The water, that trickles from it in a rivulet, leaves a white incrustation along its channel, in appearance exactly like soap suds.

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* cubierto de incrustaciones = barnacled.

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femenino

a) (de madera, metal) inlay

con incrustaciones de nácar — inlaid with mother-of-pearl

la corona tiene incrustaciones de rubíes — the crown is set with rubies

b) (Col) (Odont) filling

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= encrustration [incustration], incrustration [encustration].

Ex: After a few weeks (or days, if you have very bad encrustation) the catheter will drain less well and then block.

Ex: The water, that trickles from it in a rivulet, leaves a white incrustation along its channel, in appearance exactly like soap suds.

* cubierto de incrustaciones = barnacled.

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incrustación

feminine

1 (Art):

con incrustaciones de nácar inlaid with mother-of-pearl

un brazalete de oro con incrustaciones de rubíes a gold bracelet set with rubies

2 (Col) (Odont) filling

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incrustación sustantivo femenino

a) (de madera, metal) inlay

b) (Col) (Odont) filling

'incrustación' also found in these entries:
English:
inlay

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incrustación nf

1. [acción] embedding;

[de joya] inlaying

2. [objeto, cuerpo] inlay;

un marco con incrustaciones de oro a frame with a gold inlay o inlaid with gold;

un collar con incrustraciones de diamantes a diamond-studded necklace

3. [en tuberías, calderas] scale, sinter

4. Andes, RP [corona] crown

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incrustación

f incrustation;

un collar con incrustaciones de marfil a necklace inlaid with ivory

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incrustación nf, pl -ciones : inlay